GeForce RTX 2080 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 frequency at 1156 MHz. The HBM2 memory is set to run at a speed of 1600 MHz on this model. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 Texture Address Units 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

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

The GeForce RTX 2080, in theory, should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon RX Vega 56 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 should be just a bit (approximately 8%) better at anisotropic 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 running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 is a better choice, 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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 maximum number of 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 Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.