GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which has core speeds of 1156 MHz on the GPU, and 1600 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce RTX 2080		26155 points
Radeon RX Vega 56		21011 points
	Difference: 5144 (24%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080		215 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 2080 should be 9% faster than the Radeon RX Vega 56 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
	Difference: 39322 (9%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 is a small bit (about 8%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX Vega 56. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		278760 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19816 (8%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 should be quite a bit (about 31%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX Vega 56, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		96960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22976 (31%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.