Radeon RX Vega 56 and Radeon RX 6900 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX Vega 56 vs Radeon RX 6900
Radeon RX Vega 56
13659
Radeon RX 6900
27641
Radeon RX Vega 56
Radeon RX 6900
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Vega
Navi 21
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2017
October 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1474 MHz
2105 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
23,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
4608
Power consumption (TDP)
210 Watt
255 Watt
Texture fill rate
329.5
606.2
Memory type
HBM2
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
409.6 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
16 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
409.6 GB/s
512.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
1.1.125
1.2