AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1545MHz vs 1471MHz)

Lower TDP (175W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +48%

10.54 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 56 +44%

6878

Radeon RX 590

4757

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +25%

30

Radeon RX 590

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +23%

57

Radeon RX 590

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +22%

87

Radeon RX 590

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +33%

52

Radeon RX 590

39

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +25%

93

Radeon RX 590

74

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +23%

125

Radeon RX 590

101

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +9%

46

Radeon RX 590

42

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +35%

91

Radeon RX 590

67

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56

110

Radeon RX 590

110

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Nov 2018

Vega

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

36

-

3584

Shading Units

2304

224

TMUs

144

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

49.44 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

210W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

12 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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