GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1156 MHz. The HBM2 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1600 MHz on this particular model. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX Vega 56		21011 points
GeForce GTX 650		2263 points
	Difference: 18748 (828%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 650		64 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 146 Watts (228%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 650 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650		80000 MB/sec
	Difference: 339430 (424%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is much (approximately 665%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 650. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 650		33856 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 225088 (665%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650		16928 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 57056 (337%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.