Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1156 MHz. The HBM2 RAM runs at a frequency of 1600 MHz on this model. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator 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

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should in theory be a bit better 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 a lot (approximately 26%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Geforce GTX 690, and also should be able to handle higher screen 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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at 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 the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.