Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking481not rated
Place by popularity34not in top-100
Power efficiency41.36no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameVegaG80
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)5 March 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$2,999

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 cores512128
Core clock speedno data600 MHz
Boost clock speed2100 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data681 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt171 Watt
Texture fill rateno data38.40
Floating-point processing powerno data0.3686 TFLOPS
ROPsno data24
TMUsno data32

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16
Lengthno data312 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 6-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 typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data1536 MB
Memory bus widthno data384 Bit
Memory clock speedno data800 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data76.8 GB/s
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 Connectorsno data2x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_111.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 5 March 2007
Chip lithography 7 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 171 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has an age advantage of 12 years, a 1185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 1040% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook card while Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition
Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition

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