The road to Vega has been a rather long one. We first saw the AMD Vega prototype running DOOM in December 2016. Not unlike a baby, it took AMD nine months to give birth to the AMD Radeon RX Vega. Today, we are going to take a close look at the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (Price Check) graphics card that is designed to take on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070. Let’s see how it performs!

 

The AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Specification Comparison

This table compares the specifications of the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 against those of its rival, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070.

Specifications	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
GPU	Vega 10	Vega 10	NVIDIA GP104
Stream Processors	4096	3584	1920
Textures Per Clock	256	224	120
Pixels Per Clock	64	64	64
Base Clock Speed	1247 MHz	1156 MHz	1506 MHz
Boost Clock Speed	1546 MHz	1471 MHz	1683 MHz
Texture Fillrate	319.2~395.8 GT/s	258.9~329.5 GT/s	180.7~202.0 GT/s
Pixel Fillrate	79.8~98.9 GP/s	74.0~94.1 GP/s	96.4~107.7 GP/s
Graphics Memory	8 GB HBM2	8 GB HBM2	8 GB GDDR5
Graphics Memory Bus Width	2048-bits	2048-bits	256-bits
Graphics Memory Speed	945 MHz	800 MHz	2000 MHz
Graphics Memory Bandwidth	483.8 GB/s	409.6 GB/s	256.0 GB/s
TDP	295 W	210 W	150 W
Retail Prices	$499	$399	$379 $449 (Founder's Edition)

 

The AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Up Close

The AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (Price Check) looks exactly like the AMD Radeon RX 480, just longer. It has the same black shroud design that debuted with that Polaris-based card.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 still offers a dual-linked DVI port, but the AMD Radeon RX Vega skips that for three DisplayPorts and a single HDMI 2.0b port.

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