Radeon RX Vega 56 and Knights Ferry - video card comparison

Radeon RX Vega 56

Knights Ferry

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

Knights (2010)

GPU code name

Vega

Knights Ferry

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

August 2017

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1474 MHz

Core clock speed

1138 MHz

Floating-point performance

10,566 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

45 nm

Number of transistors

12,500 million

2,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

512

Power consumption (TDP)

210 Watt

Texture fill rate

329.5

Memory type

HBM2

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

Memory bus width

409.6 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

409.6 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

N/A

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.4

5.0

Vulkan

1.1.125

N/A