AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2017
Jan 2025
Generation
Vega
GeForce 50
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1156 MHz
2017 MHz
Boost Clock
1471 MHz
2407 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
32GB
Memory Type
HBM2
GDDR7
Memory Bus
2048bit
512bit
Bandwidth
409.6GB/s
1.79TB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
56
—
Shading Units
3584
21760
TMUs
224
680
ROPs
64
176
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
96 MB
SM Count
—
170
Tensor Cores
—
680
RT Cores
—
170
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
94.14 GPixel/s
423.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
329.5 GTexel/s
1636.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
21.09 TFLOPS
104.8 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.54 TFLOPS
104.8 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
659.0 GFLOPS
1.637 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Vega 10
GB202
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XL(215-0894216)
GB202-300-A1
Architecture
GCN 5.0
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
5 nm
Transistors
12.5 billion
92.2 billion
Die Size
495 mm²
750 mm²
Board Design
TDP
210W
575W
Suggested PSU
550 W
950 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 16-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.4
Shader Model
6.4
6.9
CUDA
—
12.0
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
6,783
46,923
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
3,310
25,766
3DMark Speed Way
—
14,614
Blender
—
14,945
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.