Radeon R4 Graphics vs RX Vega 56

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking151not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation24.52no data
Power efficiency11.18no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameVega 10Beema
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date14 August 2017 (7 years ago)11 June 2014 (10 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 cores3584128
Core clock speed1156 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speed1471 MHzno data
Number of transistors12,500 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)210 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate329.56.400
Floating-point processing power10.54 TFLOPS0.2048 TFLOPS
ROPs644
TMUs2248

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 x16IGP
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-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 typeHBM2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width2048 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth409.6 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

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 DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.1.1251.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 August 2017 11 June 2014
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 210 Watt 15 Watt

RX Vega 56 has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

R4 Graphics, on the other hand, has 1300% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 56 and Radeon R4 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.


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