GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which has clock speeds of 1156 MHz on the GPU, and 1600 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

Display Graphs

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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 Ti		31381 points
Radeon RX Vega 56		21011 points
	Difference: 10370 (49%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (19%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon RX Vega 56 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		630784 MB/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
	Difference: 211354 (50%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is much (about 42%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX Vega 56. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		367200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 108256 (42%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		118800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 44816 (61%)

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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.