Radeon RX Vega 2 vs RX 570X

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking625not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.99no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code namePolaris 20Vega Raven Ridge
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date11 April 2018 (6 years ago)7 January 2018 (6 years ago)

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 cores2048128
Core clock speed1168 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1244 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate159.2no data
Floating-point processing power5.095 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs128no data

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 x16no data
Length241 mmno data
Width2-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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount8 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1750 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/sno data
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 DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12_1
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 April 2018 7 January 2018
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 15 Watt

RX 570X has an age advantage of 3 months.

RX Vega 2, on the other hand, has a 16.7% more advanced lithography process, and 700% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 570X and Radeon RX Vega 2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 570X is a desktop card while Radeon RX Vega 2 is a notebook one.


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