Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1156 MHz, and 8192 MB of HBM2 RAM set to run at 1600 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also features 3584 Stream Processors, 224 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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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

Radeon RX Vega 56		21011 points
Geforce GTX 690		13111 points
	Difference: 7900 (60%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX Vega 56, in theory, should perform a bit faster than the Geforce GTX 690 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
	Difference: 34918 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is just a bit (approximately 11%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 690. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24704 (11%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is superior to the Geforce GTX 690, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15424 (26%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.