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Best Bench: 85% Sapphire(1DA2 E376)
Worst Bench: 71% AMD(1002 0B36) ≥ 4GB

Poor: 71% Great: 85%

SPEED RANK: 93^rd / 714

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Best Bench: 66% MSI(1462 3170)
Worst Bench: 53% MSI(1462 3170)

Poor: 53% Great: 66%

SPEED RANK: 112^th / 714


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		78 %	Much faster effective speed. +32%		59.3 %


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	98.3 fps	Much better lighting effects. +33%	73.7 fps
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	105 fps	Better reflection handling. +22%	86.4 fps
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	88.6 fps	Faster multi rendering. +17%	75.9 fps
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	114 fps	Much faster NBody calculation. +57%	72.8 fps


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	109 fps	Better peak lighting effects. +30%	83.9 fps
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	112 fps		113 fps	+1%
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	94.1 fps	Faster peak multi rendering. +17%	80.6 fps
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	128 fps	Much faster peak NBody calculation. +58%	80.9 fps


CSGO Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	158 Fps		183 Fps	Better CSGO Fps. +16%
Fortnite Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	117 Fps	Better Fortnite Fps. +11%	105 Fps
PUBG Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	89 Fps	Better PUBG Fps. +26%	70 Fps
GTAV Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	82 Fps	Much Better GTAV Fps. +35%	61 Fps
LoL Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	189 Fps		191 Fps	+1%
Overwatch Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	123 Fps	Better Overwatch Fps. +18%	104 Fps
BF1 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	108 Fps	Much Better BF1 Fps. +46%	74 Fps
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	87 Fps	Much Better The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Fps. +44%	60 Fps
Minecraft Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	198 Fps		207 Fps	+5%
DOTA 2 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	150 Fps	Better DOTA 2 Fps. +11%	136 Fps
WoW Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	79 Fps	+5%	75 Fps
WoT Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	130 Fps	Better WoT Fps. +17%	111 Fps

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.06 %		0.19 %	Hugely higher market share. +217%
Value Value For Money	109 %	Hugely better value. +287%	28.1 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	58 %		66 %	More popular. +14%
Price Price (score)	$170	Much cheaper. +66%	$500


Age Newest	80 Months	Much more recent. +30%	115 Months
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	175 fps	Hugely better peak texture detail. +111%	83 fps
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	77.6 fps	Slightly faster peak complex splatting. +7%	72.3 fps
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	155 fps	Hugely better texture detail. +107%	74.8 fps
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	74.5 fps	Faster complex splatting. +14%	65.3 fps

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 Nvidia GTX 980 is the new top end Maxwell based Nvidia GPU. The Maxwell architecture offers significantly higher clock for clock performance when compared to Kepler based cards from the previous generation. Comparing the GTX 980 and GTX 970 shows that the 970 only lags by around 17% in terms of performance but it's priced nearly 40% lower making the GTX 970 far better value for money card. Even though the GTX 970 beats the 980 in terms of value, the 980 still destroys previous generation cards. Comparing the GTX 980 and 780 Ti shows that the Newer 980 offers around 14% better performance at a 25% price discount. Nvidia have changed the price/performance landscape with their new Maxwell architecture and now pose a serious threat to AMDs high end GPU market share. The new GTX 980/970 cards replace the now discontinued GTX 780 Ti, 780 and 770. ^{[Sep '14 GPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
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