Radeon RX Vega 56 and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX Vega 56 vs Radeon RX 590
Radeon RX Vega 56
13659
Radeon RX 590
9695
Radeon RX Vega 56
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Vega
Polaris 30
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2017
November 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1474 MHz
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
1138 MHz
1469 MHz
Floating-point performance
10,566 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
12,500 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
210 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
329.5
222.5
Memory type
HBM2
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
409.6 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
409.6 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.125
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+