Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile vs Pro W5500

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking234not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation42.87no data
Power efficiency13.19no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameNavi 14Vega 10
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date10 February 2020 (4 years ago)1 June 2018 (6 years ago)
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 cores14083584
Core clock speed1187 MHz1138 MHz
Boost clock speed1400 MHz1301 MHz
Number of transistors6,400 million12,500 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)125 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate123.2291.4
Floating-point processing power3.942 TFLOPS9.326 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs88224

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 4.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR6HBM2
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit2048 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s409.6 GB/s

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 Connectors4x DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.125

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 February 2020 1 June 2018
Chip lithography 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 125 Watt 120 Watt

Pro W5500 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

RX Vega 56 Mobile, on the other hand, has 4.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro W5500 and Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro W5500 is a workstation card while Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile is a notebook one.


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