AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1471MHz vs 1284MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (150W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +100%

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

5.259 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 56 +82%

6878

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

3759

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Oct 2018

Vega

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

1284 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

32

-

3584

Shading Units

2048

224

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

41.09 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

164.4 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.259 TFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.259 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

328.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

210W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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