Radeon RX Vega 56 and Radeon RX 5500 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon RX Vega 56
Radeon RX 5500 OEM
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code name
Vega
Navi 14
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2017
October 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1474 MHz
1845 MHz
Core clock speed
1138 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
10,566 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
12,500 million
6,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
210 Watt
110 Watt
Texture fill rate
329.5
162.4
Memory type
HBM2
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
409.6 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
409.6 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
1.1.125
1.2.131