Radeon RX Vega 56 and GA106 - video card comparison

Radeon RX Vega 56

GA106

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Vega

GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

August 2017

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

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Boost clock speed

1474 MHz

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Core clock speed

1138 MHz

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Floating-point performance

10,566 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

12,500 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

210 Watt

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Texture fill rate

329.5

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Memory type

HBM2

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Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

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Memory bus width

409.6 Bit

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Memory clock speed

800 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

409.6 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

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HDMI

+

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DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

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8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

1.1.125

1.3

NVENC

-

7th Gen

PureVideo HD

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VP11