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RX Vega-56

Average Bench: 82.8% (53rd of 665)

Based on 78,528 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: 74%Average: 82.8% Great: 93%

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Very good average bench

The AMD RX Vega-56 averaged just 17.1% 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) 99.1fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 110fps

Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD RX Vega-56 is just 19.1%. 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) 104fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 157fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 78,528 samples)
Rank 5382.8%
Min Avg Max
83.1 Lighting 99.1 114
82.6 Reflection 104 113
138 Parallax 157 182
80.1% 120 fps
Min Avg Max
81.4 MRender 88.7 94.4
98.4 Gravity 110 125
71.4 Splatting 74.8 78.2
86% 91.2 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Sapphire(1DA2 E376)
CLim: 1590 MHz, MLim: 800 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 21.5.2
94.3% Outstanding
Lighting 115
Reflection 109
Parallax 175
93% 133 fps
MRender 91.3
Gravity 124
Splatting 75.8
95% 96.9 fps
Sapphire(1DA2 E376)
CLim: 1595 MHz, MLim: 888 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 21.4.1
92.3% Outstanding
Lighting 111
Reflection 110
Parallax 173
90% 131 fps
MRender 92.6
Gravity 123
Splatting 76
95% 97.3 fps
PowerColor(148C 2388) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1590 MHz, MLim: 800 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 21.4.1
86.5% Excellent
Lighting 104
Reflection 107
Parallax 161
84% 124 fps
MRender 90.8
Gravity 114
Splatting 75.1
89% 93.4 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 43,732,295 GPUs tested.

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Based on statistics from 78,528 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (MSRP ≈ $400 @ launch in Aug '17)
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MSI(1462 3681) 23% 80% ± 6%
MSI RX Vega 56 8GB Gaming Air Boost
RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC
AmazonUS $7004 months
Sapphire(1DA2 E376) 19% 85% ± 7%
Sapphire RX Vega 56 8GB Pulse
11276-02-40G
AmazonUS $4367 months
Asus(1043 0555) 17% 85% ± 6%
PowerColor(148C 2388) 11% 85% ± 5%
ASRock(1849 1001) 9% 80% ± 6%
ASRock RX Vega 56 8GB Phantom Gaming X
90-GA0900-00UANF
Gigabyte(1458 230C) 7% 85% ± 6%
Gigabyte RX Vega 56 8GB OC
GV-RXVEGA56GAMING OC-8GD
AMD(1002 0B36) 7% 79% ± 8%
AMD(1002 6B76) 3% 81% ± 5%
Sapphire RX Vega 56 8GB
21276-00-20G
AmazonUS $5996 months
XFX RX Vega 56 8GB
RX-VEGMLBFX6
Gigabyte RX Vega 56 8GB
GV-RXVEGA56-8GD-B
XFX(1682 9C30) 2% 78% ± 2%
Sapphire(1DA2 E37F) 2% 90% ± 4%
Device(BDBD A153) 0% 76% ± 0%
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Gaming 73%
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Desktop 88%
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Workstation 69%
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Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING - $130

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD  $199Bench 83%, 842,939 samples20,956x
Ryzen 7 2700XAMD  $210Bench 81%, 479,643 samples13,061x
Ryzen 7 3700XAMD  $305Bench 86%, 591,493 samples11,146x
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RX Vega-56AMD  $436Bench 83%, 78,528 samples1x
SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $75Bench 106%, 605,938 samples3,900x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung  $85Bench 287%, 287,660 samples3,056x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung  $85Bench 270%, 348,027 samples2,810x
RAM
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $113Bench 85%, 223,980 samples7,062x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $79Bench 85%, 449,640 samples6,728x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $94Bench 81%, 510,924 samples4,612x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 57% - Above average Total price: $952

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 Comments

GPUPro
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1,545

Official site gaming.radeon.com/...

Added 3 years ago.
USA-User
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7,884

Excellent (edit your comment) Add link

3 days 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
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4,200

Excellent

6 months ago.

Best value. Very balanced because of memory.

FRA-User
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3,905

Poor

4 days ago.

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

BRA-User
Avatar level
3,823

Excellent

6 months ago.

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

POL-User
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3,794

Poor

3 months ago.

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

IND-User
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3,738

Good

23 months ago.

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

ITA-User
Avatar level
3,483

Good

9 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
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3,228

Good

5 months ago.

Very good at running half life alyx at ultra speeds

GRC-User
Avatar level
2,653

Terrible

3 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)

KOR-User
Avatar level
2,650

Excellent

11 months ago.

buy used for working every game

PAK-User
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2,474

Excellent

5 months ago.

This card is use for heavy load.

SWE-User
Avatar level
2,314

Excellent

18 months ago.

Better then RTX 2060 for 30 euros more

AUT-User
Avatar level
2,261

Excellent

5 months ago.

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

ZAF-User
Avatar level
2,244

Average

9 months ago.

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

PRT-User
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2,234

Excellent

3 months ago.

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

HRV-User
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1,956

Excellent

19 months ago.

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

ISR-User
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1,940

Excellent

2 month ago.

Has best value for its cost and its effectiveness is quite high (High End GPU).

DNK-User
Avatar level
1,856

Excellent

15 months ago.

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

GPUPro
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1,545

Good

19 months ago.

LKA-User
Avatar level
1,400

Excellent

20 months ago.

Undervolt and get the best out of it!

PRY-User
Avatar level
666

Excellent

21 months 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!

Viper207
Avatar level
442

Average

11 months ago.

vega 56 ref good competiror for 1660 ti or 1070 at 2020 but hot

RavenBailiff
Avatar level
314

Excellent

2 years ago.

AMAZING value, good for a lot of purpose's

iljalein
Avatar level
62

Excellent

19 months ago.

So much potential with a 64 BIOS

webmetalreese
Avatar level
12

Excellent

2 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

2 years ago.

Currently a decent bang for your buck

larspassic
Avatar level
8

Excellent

20 months ago.

Powerful GPU with excellent value.

SoManyBees
Avatar level
6

Excellent

3 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

2 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

20 months 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

17 months ago.

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

ryleyw94
Avatar level
2

Excellent

2 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

2 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

2 years ago.

A bit too loud, but otherwise a good card

Jard64
Avatar level
2

Excellent

22 months ago.

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

Venryx
Avatar level
2

Good

22 months 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

15 months ago.

Vega 64 Performance with less Power consumption After DV OC

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