Radeon RX 5700 XT vs RX Vega 56 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated87
Place by popularitynot in top-10072
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data47.75
Power efficiencyno data13.21
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameVega 10Navi 10
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 June 2018 (6 years ago)7 July 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$399

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 cores35842560
Core clock speed1138 MHz1605 MHz
Boost clock speed1301 MHz1905 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 million10,300 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate291.4304.8
Floating-point processing power9.326 TFLOPS9.754 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs224160

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 data272 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 GB8 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth409.6 GB/s448.0 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 DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI++

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Readyno data+
Multi Monitorno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.1.125+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2018 7 July 2019
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 225 Watt

RX Vega 56 Mobile has 87.5% lower power consumption.

RX 5700 XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile and Radeon RX 5700 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile is a notebook card while Radeon RX 5700 XT is a desktop one.


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