Radeon RX Vega 56 and GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample - video card comparison

Radeon RX Vega 56

GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Vega

TU104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

August 2017

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1474 MHz

1710 MHz

Core clock speed

1138 MHz

Floating-point performance

10,566 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

12,500 million

13,600 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

3072

Power consumption (TDP)

210 Watt

215 Watt

Texture fill rate

329.5

328.3

Memory type

HBM2

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

Memory bus width

409.6 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

409.6 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

1.1.125

1.3