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Radeon RX Vega 56
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VRAM
8 GB
CUDA
3,584
FP32
10.54 TF
Bandwidth
409.6 GB/s
TDP
210W
Boost
1471 MHz
Strengths at a Glance
How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
FP32 compute10.54 TFLOPS10%
vs RTX 5090 D: 104.8 TFLOPS
Memory bandwidth409.6 GB/s23%
vs RTX 5090 D: 1790 GB/s
VRAM capacity8 GB25%
vs RTX 5090 D: 32 GB
Shading units3,58416%
vs RTX 5090 D: 21,760
Power efficiency16/10028%
vs RTX 5090 D: 58/100
Synthetic Benchmarks
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
3DMark Time Spy11,160pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 36,000 pts
3DMark Port Royal (RT)4,860pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 18,000 pts
Blender (samples/min)1,456spm
vs RTX 5090 D: 5,200 spm
Geekbench Compute57,600pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 240,000 pts
Performance breakdown
Gaming31
Ray tracing27
AI / Compute24
Creator / 3D28
Power efficiency16
Real-World Gaming
FPS Across Resolutions
1080p · Ultra preset1440p · Ultra preset4K · Ultra preset
Cyberpunk 2077avg 39 fps
1080p
71
1440p
32
4K
15
Counter-Strike 2avg 91 fps
1080p
170
1440p
71
4K
32
Fortniteavg 81 fps
1080p
135
1440p
72
4K
36
Battlefield 5avg 92 fps
1080p
127
1440p
96
4K
53
Far Cry 5avg 65 fps
1080p
86
1440p
72
4K
38
Valorantavg 202 fps
1080p
189
1440p
228
4K
189
Average FPS across all PC games
1080p
122fps
1440p
73fps
4K
53fps
Cost per frame
Launch MSRP ($399) ÷ average FPS — lower is better.
1080p
$3.27
1440p
$4.87
4K
$7.51
Community Feedback
What Owners Say
Owners love the price-to-performance ratio and solid 1440p gaming. The usual gripe is the high power draw and heat output from the blower-style cooler.
Pros
- Runs cool under moderate loads
- Great value for high resolution gaming
- Fast enough for most modern games
- Handles VR without breaking a sweat
Cons
- Gets hot and uses lots of power
- Memory bandwidth limited for today
- No ray tracing support at all
Supported technologies
AV1 Encode
Full specifications
Graphics processor
Core configuration
- CUDA Cores
- 3,584
- TMUs
- 224
- ROPs
- 64
- L2 cache
- 4 MB
Memory
- Size
- 8 GB
- Type
- HBM2
- Bus width
- 2048-bit
- Bandwidth
- 409.6 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 800 MHz
Clocks & throughput
- Base clock
- 1156 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1471 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 10.54 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 10.54 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 94 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 329.5 GTexel/s
Board & power
- TDP
- 210W
- Suggested PSU
- 400W
- Power connectors
- 2x 8-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- Length
- 267 mm
- Slot width
- 2-slot
Display & outputs
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 (12_1)
- Shader Model
- 6.4
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.0
- Vulkan
- 1.1.125
Verdict
Our verdict on the RX Vega 56
A mid-range GCN card from 2017 with 8 GB HBM2, but its high power draw and heat hold it back.
Get it if you need a solid 1440p card on a budget and can handle the heat and power draw. Skip it if you want modern features like ray tracing or better efficiency from newer GPUs.
Buy it if…
- You want a solid 1440p card without breaking the bank.
- You need FreeSync support for a smooth gaming experience.
- You are building a retro or secondary rig on a tight budget.
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