AMD Radeon RX 580 vs Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56. Specifications, performance, tests

Comparison of basic technical data of graphics cards AMD Radeon RX 580 and Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56, chip, information processing units.

• GPU Chip
  Polaris 20 XT Vega 10 XL
• Execution units
  36 56
• Shader
  2304 3584
• Render Output Units
  32 64
• Texture Units
  144 256

Comparison of the amount of memory on board graphics cards. The more the better.

• Memory Size
  8 GB 8 GB
• Memory Type
  GDDR5 HBM2
• Memory Speed
  2 GHz 0.8 GHz

Let's compare the memory frequency of graphics cards AMD Radeon RX 580 and Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56. The higher the better.

• Base Clock
  1.257 GHz 1.208 GHz+ 4 %
• Boost Clock
  1.340 GHz 1.512 GHz+ 3 %

Connectors, the number of thermal watts emitted in normal mode and at overclocking.

• TDP
  185 W 280 W+ 33 %

Technical data that is used to its full potential in computer games.

• Max. resolution
  7680x4320 7680x4320
• DirectX
  12 12_1
• Raytracing
  No No
• DLSS / FSR
  No No

Built-in support for video and image compression standards.

• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode Decode
• VP9
  Decode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No

Comparison of interfaces and release dates for GPU Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56 and AMD Radeon RX 580.

• GPU Interface
  PCIe 3.0 x 16 PCIe 3.0 x 16
• Structure size
  14 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2017 Q3/2017