Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which has GPU clock speed of 1156 MHz, and 8192 MB of HBM2 RAM set to run at 1600 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also is made up of 3584 Stream Processors, 224 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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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 690		13111 points
	Difference: 7900 (60%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should in theory be a bit faster than the Geforce GTX 690 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
	Difference: 34918 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 will be just a bit (more or less 11%) better at texture filtering than the Geforce GTX 690. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24704 (11%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 will be quite a bit (about 26%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Geforce GTX 690, and capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15424 (26%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.