AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2017
Jun 2016
Generation
Vega
Polaris
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1156 MHz
1120 MHz
Boost Clock
1471 MHz
1266 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
8GB
Memory Type
HBM2
GDDR5
Memory Bus
2048bit
256bit
Bandwidth
409.6GB/s
256.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
56
36
Shading Units
3584
2304
TMUs
224
144
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
94.14 GPixel/s
40.51 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
329.5 GTexel/s
182.3 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
21.09 TFLOPS
5.834 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.54 TFLOPS
5.834 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
659.0 GFLOPS
364.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Vega 10
Ellesmere
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XL(215-0894216)
Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184)
Architecture
GCN 5.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
14 nm
14 nm
Transistors
12.5 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
495 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
210W
150W
Suggested PSU
550 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
6,783
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
3,310
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.