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Radeon RX 5600 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

The Radeon RX 5600 uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a speed of 1500 MHz on this particular model. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which features GPU clock speed of 1156 MHz, and 8192 MB of HBM2 memory set to run at 1600 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also features 3584 SPUs, 224 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 150 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56 210 Watts
Difference: 60 Watts (40%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should be 42% quicker than the Radeon RX 5600 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56 419430 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600 294912 MB/sec
Difference: 124518 (42%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is quite a bit (more or less 47%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56 258944 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 176000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 82944 (47%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is a better choice, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56 73984 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 14016 (19%)

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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon RX 5600 Radeon RX Vega 56
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year January 2020 September 2017
Code Name Navi 10 XE Vega 10 XL
Memory 6144 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1375 MHz 1156 MHz
Memory Speed 1500 GB/s 1600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 210 watts
Bandwidth 294912 MB/sec 419430 MB/sec
Texel Rate 176000 Mtexels/sec 258944 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 88000 Mpixels/sec 73984 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2048 3584
Texture Mapping Units 128 224
Render Output Units 64 64
Bus Type GDDR6 HBM2
Bus Width 192-bit 2048-bit
Fab Process 7 nm 14 nm
Transistors 10300 million 12500 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 ×16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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.

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