AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Vega 10 Picasso
GPU variant Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)
Architecture GCN 5.0 GCN 5.0
Foundry GlobalFoundries GlobalFoundries
Manufacturing process 14 nm 14 nm
Number of transistors 12,500 million 4,940 million
Die size 495 mm² 210 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Aug 14th, 2017
Generation Vega
Predecessor Polaris
Successor Navi
Production Active
Launch price 399 USD
Current price Amazon / Newegg
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 23 in our database

Clocks

Base clock 1156 MHz 300 MHz
Boost clock 1471 MHz 1250 MHz
SOC clock 960 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective System Shared

Memory Configuration

Memory size 8 GB System Shared
Memory type HBM2 System Shared
Memory bus width 2048 bit System Shared
Bandwidth 409.6 GB/s System Dependent

Render Configuration

Shading units 3584 512
TMUs 224 32
ROPs 64 8
Compute units 56 8
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 4 MB

Performance

Pixel rate 94.14 GPixel/s 10.00 GPixel/s
Texture rate 329.5 GTexel/s 40.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 21.09 TFLOPS (2:1) 2.560 TFLOPS (2:1)
FP32 (float) performance 10.54 TFLOPS 1,280 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 659.0 GFLOPS (1:16) 80.00 GFLOPS (1:16)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot IGP
Length 280 mm 11 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 40 mm 1.6 inches
TDP 210 W 15 W
Suggested PSU 550 W
Outputs 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors 2x 8-pin None
Board number D050-57

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader model 6.4 6.4

Other Features

Integrated Graphics

Release date Jul 7th, 2019
Generation Picasso (Vega)
Production Active
Interface IGP
Predecessor Raven Ridge
Successor Renoir

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