Radeon RX Vega Mobile 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)Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code nameVega 10Vega Mobile
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date14 August 2017 (7 years ago)7 January 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 cores35841792
Core clock speed1156 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1471 MHzno data
Number of transistors12,500 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)210 Watt90 Watt
Texture fill rate329.5no data
Floating-point processing power10.54 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64no data
TMUs224no 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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
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 typeHBM2HBM2
Maximum RAM amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit2048 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth409.6 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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12_1
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.1.125-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 August 2017 7 January 2018
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 210 Watt 90 Watt

RX Vega 56 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RX Vega Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 months, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

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

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


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