Radeon RX Vega 56 vs Radeon HD 6230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1471MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
3504 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 6230 's Advantages
Lower TDP (19W vs 210W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX Vega 56
+10034%
10540
Radeon HD 6230
104
Graphics Card
Aug 2017
Release Date
Jul 2011
Vega
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1156 MHz
Base Clock
-
1471 MHz
Boost Clock
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
667 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
HBM2
Memory Type
DDR2
2048bit
Memory Bus
64bit
409.6GB/s
Bandwidth
10.67GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
2
3584
Shading Units
80
224
TMUs
8
64
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
94.14 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.600 GPixel/s
329.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.200 GTexel/s
21.09 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.54 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
104.0 GFLOPS
659.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
210W
TDP
19W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
Park
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
GPU Variant
Park S3 LP
GCN 5.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
59 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
6.4
Shader Model
5.0
