GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1156 MHz, and 8192 MB of HBM2 RAM running at 1600 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also features 3584 Stream Processors, 224 Texture Address Units, 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

GeForce RTX 2080		26155 points
Radeon RX Vega 56		21011 points
	Difference: 5144 (24%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080		215 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2080 will be 9% faster than the Radeon RX Vega 56 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
	Difference: 39322 (9%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 is a small bit (more or less 8%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX Vega 56. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		278760 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19816 (8%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 is superior to the Radeon RX Vega 56, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		96960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22976 (31%)

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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.