Real World Speed
Performance profile from 118,626 user samples
92,053 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 85% Sapphire(1DA2 E376)
Worst Bench: 71% AMD(1002 0B36) ≥ 4GB
Poor: 71% Great: 85%
SPEED RANK: 93rd / 714
26,573 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 57% PowerColor(148C 2357) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 48% Sapphire(174B E324)
Poor: 48% Great: 57%
SPEED RANK: 121st / 714
Effective 3D Speed
Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed
78 % Much faster effective speed.
+46%
53.5 %
Lighting
Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)
98.3 fps Much better lighting effects.
+41%
69.8 fps
Reflection
Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)
105 fps Much better reflection handling.
+41%
74.3 fps
MRender
Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)
88.6 fps Much faster multi rendering.
+35%
65.6 fps
Gravity
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)
114 fps Much faster NBody calculation.
+75%
65.1 fps
Lighting
Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)
109 fps Much better peak lighting effects.
+43%
76 fps
Reflection
High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)
112 fps Much better peak reflection handling.
+45%
77.2 fps
MRender
Render target array GShader (Sphere)
94.1 fps Much faster peak multi rendering.
+39%
67.9 fps
Gravity
NBody particle system (Galaxy)
128 fps Hugely faster peak NBody calculation.
+86%
69 fps
CSGO
Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max
158 Fps Better CSGO Fps.
+12%
141 Fps
Fortnite
Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max
117 Fps Much Better Fortnite Fps.
+38%
85 Fps
PUBG
Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max
89 Fps Much Better PUBG Fps.
+74%
51 Fps
GTAV
Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max
82 Fps Better GTAV Fps.
+20%
68 Fps
LoL
Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max
189 Fps 193 Fps +2%
Overwatch
Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max
123 Fps Better Overwatch Fps.
+24%
98 Fps
BF1
Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max
108 Fps Much Better BF1 Fps.
+56%
69 Fps
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max
87 Fps Much Better The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Fps.
+58%
55 Fps
WoT
Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max
130 Fps Better WoT Fps.
+25%
104 Fps
Market Share
Based on 67,460,649 GPUs tested
Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days)
0.06 % Hugely higher market share.
+500%
0.01 %
Value
Value For Money
109 % Hugely better value.
+192%
37.3 %
User Rating
UBM User Rating
58 % 61 % Slightly more popular.
+5%
Price
Price (score)
$170 Much cheaper.
+50%
$340
Age
Newest
80 Months More recent.
+25%
106 Months
Parallax
Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)
175 fps Much better peak texture detail.
+73%
101 fps
Splatting
Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)
77.6 fps Much faster peak complex splatting.
+62%
47.8 fps
Parallax
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)
155 fps Much better texture detail.
+68%
92.3 fps
Splatting
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)
74.5 fps Much faster complex splatting.
+61%
46.2 fps
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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]

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The AMD R9 390X is a rebadged power hungry (350W+) 290X. The 390X has a slightly increased GPU clock speed, a significantly increased memory speed and a higher minimum VRAM of 8GB but it shares the same core GPU hardware. Looking at the overclocked performance differences between the older 290X and the 390X shows that the two cards are approximately the same, which comes as no surprise considering that the 390X is actually just a factory overclocked 290X. Smart shoppers obviously won't be happy to pay AMD a premium of around $100 simply for overclocking a two year old 290X. That said the 390X does offer stellar performance, particularly at 4K resolutions and if prices drop significantly it could become a strong contender. We only have one MSI sample benchmark for the 390X so far so we will revisit this GPU when we have a better sample of all the available cards. [Jun '15 GPUPro]

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Graphics Card Rankings (Price vs Performance) April 2024 GPU Rankings

We calculate effective 3D speed which estimates gaming performance for the top 12 games. Effective speed is adjusted by current prices to yield value for money. Our figures are checked against thousands of individual user ratings. The customizable table below combines these factors to bring you the definitive list of top GPUs. [GPUPro]

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