Radeon RX 5600 XT vs Radeon RX Vega 56
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 5600 XT Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1560MHz vs 1471MHz)
Lower TDP (150W vs 210W)
Radeon RX Vega 56 Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5600 XT
7188
Radeon RX Vega 56
+46%
10540
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 5600 XT
+12%
7633
Radeon RX Vega 56
6783
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 5600 XT
+7%
3561
Radeon RX Vega 56
3310
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 5600 XT
+3%
31
Radeon RX Vega 56
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 5600 XT
+12%
64
Radeon RX Vega 56
57
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 5600 XT
+13%
99
Radeon RX Vega 56
87
Battlefield 5 2160p
Radeon RX 5600 XT
47
Radeon RX Vega 56
+10%
52
Battlefield 5 1440p
Radeon RX 5600 XT
92
Radeon RX Vega 56
+1%
93
Battlefield 5 1080p
Radeon RX 5600 XT
125
Radeon RX Vega 56
125
GTA 5 2160p
Radeon RX 5600 XT
+8%
50
Radeon RX Vega 56
46
GTA 5 1440p
Radeon RX 5600 XT
61
Radeon RX Vega 56
+49%
91
GTA 5 1080p
Radeon RX 5600 XT
+54%
170
Radeon RX Vega 56
110
Graphics Card
Jan 2020
Release Date
Aug 2017
Navi
Generation
Vega
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1130 MHz
Base Clock
1156 MHz
1560 MHz
Boost Clock
1471 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2
192bit
Memory Bus
2048bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
409.6GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
56
2304
Shading Units
3584
144
TMUs
224
64
ROPs
64
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L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
3 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
99.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
94.14 GPixel/s
224.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
329.5 GTexel/s
14.38 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
21.09 TFLOPS
7.188 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.54 TFLOPS
449.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
659.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
210W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
Vega 10
Navi 10 XLE
(215-0917338)
(215-0917338)
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
(215-0894216)
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
GCN 5.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
7 nm
Process Size
14 nm
10.3 billion
Transistors
12.5 billion
251 mm²
Die Size
495 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.5
Shader Model
6.4
