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Average Bench: 78% (93rd of 714)

Based on 92,053 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 687F 56 Models: Radeon RX Vega, Radeon(TM) RX Vega

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is the weakest member of AMD's Vega GPU family. The Vega architecture is built on 14 nm silicon and contains next-generation compute units (nCUs). Each NCU houses 64 steam processors, of which the Vega 56 has 3584 vs. 4096 in the Vega 64. The new architecture employs 8GB of second generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM2). In terms of compatibility all of the games we tested were fine apart from GTAV where enabling reflection MSAA resulted in very poor, almost matt, reflection fidelity (the same bug appeared on several Navi and Vega cards). Although the Vega 56 has 12.5% less processing units, users have found that by flashing an RX 64 BIOS into an RX 56 card allows a 10% increase in OC headroom which effectively brings a BIOS flashed RX 56 onto par with a stock RX 64 and just 12.5% slower than a fully overclocked RX 64. All of this OC headroom is great on paper but in the real world the reference Vega 56 is far too noisy. Hair dryer levels of noise at stock clocks are unacceptable for most users. Provided you are partially deaf or happy to use noise canceling headphones the Vega 56 “can” deliver levels of performance that approach an RTX 2060 but prices need to drop below $200 before the Vega 56 is competitive. [Nov '19 GPUPro]

Poor: 71%Average: 78% Great: 85%

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Good average bench

The AMD RX Vega-56 averaged 21.9% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the AMD RX Vega-56 near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 98.3fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 114fps

Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD RX Vega-56 is just 13.1%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the AMD RX Vega-56 performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 105fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 155fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 92,053 samples)
Rank 9378%
Min Avg Max
89.4 Lighting 98.3 109
98.1 Reflection 105 112
138 Parallax 155 175
80.1% 120 fps
Min Avg Max
82.7 MRender 88.6 94.1
103 Gravity 114 128
71.3 Splatting 74.5 77.6
74.1% 92.4 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Asus(1043 0555) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1590 MHz, MLim: 800 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 23.11.1
84.3% Excellent
Lighting 108
Reflection 107
Parallax 170
88% 128 fps
MRender 89.3
Gravity 126
Splatting 74.7
77% 96.7 fps
Asus(1043 0555) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1590 MHz, MLim: 800 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 22.9.1
76.4% Very good
Lighting 97.5
Reflection 105
Parallax 153
80% 119 fps
MRender 86.2
Gravity 102
Splatting 74.4
70% 87.6 fps
MSI(1462 3681)
CLim: 1590 MHz, MLim: 800 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 24.1.1
75.9% Very good
Lighting 95.9
Reflection 104
Parallax 145
78% 115 fps
MRender 86.5
Gravity 108
Splatting 73.6
72% 89.2 fps
ASRock(1849 1001)
CLim: 1590 MHz, MLim: 800 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 22.20.27.09
69.4% Good
Lighting 85.6
Reflection 94.6
Parallax 132
70% 104 fps
MRender 83
Gravity 103
Splatting 71
69% 85.6 fps
Gigabyte(1458 230C)
CLim: 1590 MHz, MLim: 800 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 23.2.1
14% Very poor
Lighting 0.6
Reflection 59.3
Parallax 0.1
0% 20 fps
MRender 49.5
Gravity 61
Splatting 40.3
40% 50.3 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (MSRP ≈ $400 @ launch in Aug '17)
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Sapphire(1DA2 E376) 23% 79% ± 4%
Sapphire RX Vega 56 8GB Pulse
11276-02-40G
AmazonUS $4723 mins
MSI(1462 3681) 20% 76% ± 4%
MSI RX Vega 56 8GB Gaming Air Boost
RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC
AmazonUS $17015 months
Asus(1043 0555) 19% 80% ± 4%
PowerColor(148C 2388) 9% 79% ± 4%
AMD(1002 0B36) 8% 75% ± 4%
Gigabyte(1458 230C) 8% 80% ± 3%
Gigabyte RX Vega 56 8GB OC
GV-RXVEGA56GAMING OC-8GD
ASRock(1849 1001) 6% 74% ± 5%
ASRock RX Vega 56 8GB Phantom Gaming X
90-GA0900-00UANF
AMD(1002 6B76) 3% 75% ± 5%
Sapphire RX Vega 56 8GB
21276-00-20G
AmazonUS $4794 mins
XFX RX Vega 56 8GB
RX-VEGMLBFX6
Gigabyte RX Vega 56 8GB
GV-RXVEGA56-8GD-B
Sapphire(1DA2 E37F) 2% 80% ± 2%
XFX(1682 9C30) 0% 74% ± 1%
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Motherboard: MSI B450 Tomahawk - $130

CPU
Ryzen 5 2600AMD  $125Bench 73%, 179,588 samples1,749x
Ryzen 5 3600AMD  $82Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples1,088x
Ryzen 7 2700XAMD  $210Bench 76%, 159,077 samples856x
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RX Vega-56AMD  $170Bench 78%, 92,053 samples1x
SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples434x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung  $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples301x
660p NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBIntel  $74Bench 191%, 163,917 samples233x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples658x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples426x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL  $37Bench 84%, 287,720 samples246x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 93% - Outstanding Total price: $548

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 Comments

GPUPro
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1,637

Official site gaming.radeon.com/...

Added 6 years ago.
USA-User
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9,834

Excellent (edit your comment) Add link

1 month ago.

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running one monitor ill hop into a game and often as not ill play for a minute or 30 and the card will black screen on my ryzen rig and then i have to restart the entire pc to get it to work again so yeah mid game ill either get the black screen or the blue screen saying "thread stuck" maybe 50% of the time now when it actually works its not bad if it would actually work and this is on every game ive played from elder scrolls to wot its just ridiculous —Mar '21

RUS-User
Avatar level
4,776

Good

14 months ago.

Best value. Very balanced because of memory.

IND-User
Avatar level
4,772

Good

4 years ago.

good gpu for its price and is as just good as any 1070 gtx which has atleast $100 more in price

BRA-User
Avatar level
4,635

Excellent

17 months ago.

a great card for the money, it´s awesome with AMD new drivers!

FRA-User
Avatar level
4,573

Terrible

2 months ago.

j'ai une 780 TI et du coup quand je vois les caractéristiques de la bête bah ....

POL-User
Avatar level
4,564

Excellent

14 months ago.

2 year old card, bougth for low price and still pretty nasty

ITA-User
Avatar level
4,067

Good

17 months ago.

Goes head to head with GTX1080 and RTX2060. Slightly surpasses them if undervolted and overclcoked. Almost forgot it costs at least 100€ less. Love it!

AUS-User
Avatar level
3,948

Poor

2 years ago.

Very good at running half life alyx at ultra speeds

PAK-User
Avatar level
3,298

Good

9 months ago.

This card is use for heavy load.

KOR-User
Avatar level
3,206

Poor

14 months ago.

buy used for working every game

GRC-User
Avatar level
3,145

Good

4 months ago.

Got it for 249€ (half the original price) , works like a charm and packs a real punch (equivalent with Nvidia is 1070 ti)

ZAF-User
Avatar level
2,784

Good

4 months ago.

It is trully a good graphics card. 100x better then the scam geforce gtx series

AUT-User
Avatar level
2,735

Excellent

3 years ago.

Good for its price. But not a very fast GPU anymore.

PRT-User
Avatar level
2,638

Excellent

15 months ago.

much cheaper than 1070 and better performance at everything other than CSGO

ISR-User
Avatar level
2,338

Average

21 months ago.

Now it's too slow. May be can be used at HD playing

HRV-User
Avatar level
2,322

Excellent

4 years ago.

in 2019 the price has got as low as 200 dollars and that makes it a great performance for the price.

DNK-User
Avatar level
2,212

Excellent

4 years ago.

Got it not too long ago for 1440p gaming, runs everything on ultra/very high with 16GB DRR3 and i5 4670k @4,6Ghz

LKA-User
Avatar level
1,904

Excellent

4 years ago.

Undervolt and get the best out of it!

GPUPro
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1,637

Good

4 years ago.

PRY-User
Avatar level
786

Excellent

4 years ago.

i have this card and it still runs all the games just great! i would recommend the RX 5700 series for modern, more intensive gaming instead, as a late buy it's still good!

RavenBailiff
Avatar level
314

Excellent

4 years ago.

AMAZING value, good for a lot of purpose's

davidegag67
Avatar level
34

Good

11 months ago.

Nice card I have it for few months, it performs like a 1070ish may be a little bit better.

deanps3
Avatar level
16

Average

2 years ago.

Got the asrock edition for cheap and it was quite okay for "rendering" gpu in my workstation pc, but it was damn too loud

webmetalreese
Avatar level
12

Excellent

5 years ago.

I have a small company called powercolor. Regardless of what I throw at it the temps stay very very cool.

pyroharo
Avatar level
10

Good

4 years ago.

Currently a decent bang for your buck

larspassic
Avatar level
8

Excellent

4 years ago.

Powerful GPU with excellent value.

SoManyBees
Avatar level
6

Excellent

6 years ago.

Full disclosure, my Vega 64 is a Vega 56 running the Vega 64 BIOS. After flashing I feel as though I got a much better GPU than AMD intended. With the voltage bump on the HBM2 I can stay super stable at 1020mhz and with some substantial undervolting my Vega 56 performs above Vega 64 stock speeds and trades blows with the GTX 1080 in some games. The reference design is very robust overclocks nicely (albeit loudly). A desperately needed entry in AMDs line-up for those of us with Freesync monitors.

WildFox395
Avatar level
6

Good

5 years ago.

Great card for the price. Got it open box at micro Center for 330. Preforms well, I haven't flashed the 64 BIOS or undervolted it yet but I likely will in the future. This wasn't the game changer that many wanted it to be though.

fman1854
Avatar level
6

Excellent

4 years ago.

took a bit of tweaking and troubleshooting to get it to fully OC and undervolt but when you find your cards sweet spot this thing is a monster at 1440p gaming on ultra settings. stays cool and quiet with custom fan curves a good card for those who love tweaking every setting possible on a gpu not a good card for people who just want to plug and play.

Daddypleb420
Avatar level
4

Excellent

4 years ago.

awesome card if you get a leveled die and custom cooler, otherwise don't bother.

ryleyw94
Avatar level
2

Excellent

5 years ago.

Love this card, I have the Strix version and its rock solid at 1100mv 1652mhz with memory at 920mhz. My benchmarks place it right next to a 3rd party GTX1080. I upgraded from 2 RX580s in Crossfire.

s34m0nst3r
Avatar level
2

Excellent

4 years ago.

This thing is a GD mule, it pulls it's weight at 2k and doesn't even cry.

Khristian
Avatar level
2

Excellent

4 years ago.

A bit too loud, but otherwise a good card

Jard64
Avatar level
2

Excellent

4 years ago.

Newegg's stuff should be on here, cause the $270 ASRock Vega 56 is amazing for the price.

Venryx
Avatar level
2

Good

4 years ago.

Best bang-for-your-buck GPU at the time of writing (August, 2019). The RX 5700 and 5700 XT cards are good options as well, but the Vega 56 outdoes them in value-ratio by a bit, and it's good enough for my purposes. To compare those two more directly, the 5700 XT is 34% faster for 60% higher ($250- $400) cost: https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-RX-Vega-56-vs-AMD-RX-5700-XT/3938vs4045 Nvidia has some good offering in the 2070 Super and such, but I prefer AMD because they work with all FreeSync monitors, which are substantially cheaper than the Nvidia GSync compatible ones. (Yes, I know Nvidia GPUs support a handful of FreeSync monitors now, but that list so far only includes some of the overpriced/fancier monitor models.)

ReptoidCleaner
Avatar level
2

Good

4 years ago.

Vega 64 Performance with less Power consumption After DV OC

memenau
Avatar level
2

Excellent

20 months ago.

It works with plenty of fps

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