GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile vs Radeon Pro Vega 56

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking173not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation44.33no data
Power efficiency10.51no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameVega 10GB203
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date14 August 2017 (7 years ago)2025
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores35848192
Core clock speed1138 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speed1250 MHz2000 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)210 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate280.0512.0
Floating-point processing power8.96 TFLOPS32.77 TFLOPS
ROPs6496
TMUs224256
Tensor Coresno data256
Ray Tracing Coresno data64

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHBM2GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount8 GB16 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed786 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth402.4 GB/s1.01 TB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI++

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.1.1251.3
CUDA-10.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 210 Watt 175 Watt

RTX 5080 Mobile has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 20% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro Vega 56 and GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro Vega 56 is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile
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