RTX 5880 Ada Generation vs Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated4
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data22.68
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameVega 10AD102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date1 June 2018 (6 years ago)5 January 2024 (less than a year 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 cores358414080
Core clock speed1138 MHz975 MHz
Boost clock speed1301 MHz2460 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt285 Watt
Texture fill rate291.41,082
Floating-point processing power9.326 TFLOPS69.27 TFLOPS
ROPs64176
TMUs224440
Tensor Coresno data440
Ray Tracing Coresno data110

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 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-pin

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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB48 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth409.6 GB/s864.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort4x 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-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2018 5 January 2024
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 285 Watt

RX Vega 56 Mobile has 137.5% lower power consumption.

RTX 5880 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile and RTX 5880 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile is a notebook card while RTX 5880 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
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