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Best Bench: 92% AMD(1002 6B76)
Worst Bench: 78% AMD(1002 6B76)

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SPEED RANK: 83^rd / 714

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

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SPEED RANK: 93^rd / 714


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		86.4 %	Faster effective speed. +11%		78 %


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	111 fps	Better lighting effects. +13%	98.3 fps
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	101 fps		105 fps	+4%
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	87.8 fps		88.6 fps	+1%
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	122 fps	Slightly faster NBody calculation. +7%	114 fps


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	119 fps	Slightly better peak lighting effects. +9%	109 fps
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	109 fps		112 fps	+3%
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	91.6 fps		94.1 fps	+3%
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	132 fps	+3%	128 fps

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0 %	0.04 %	Insanely higher market share. +∞%
Value Value For Money	20.5 %	109 %	Hugely better value. +431%
User Rating UBM User Rating	53 %	58 %	Slightly more popular. +9%
Price Price (score)	$1,000	$170	Hugely cheaper. +83%


Age Newest	81 Months		80 Months	+1%
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	189 fps	Slightly better peak texture detail. +8%	175 fps
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	125 fps	Much faster peak complex splatting. +61%	77.6 fps
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	173 fps	Better texture detail. +12%	155 fps
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	80.8 fps	Slightly faster complex splatting. +8%	74.5 fps

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition GPU is AMD's first graphics card with the new Vega architecture which features next-generation compute units (nCUs). AMD have designed Vega to handle the increasing data and computational demands from game creation to rendering simulations to video processing to AI. The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition comes with 64 nCUs yielding 4096 stream processors with which it can process up to 13.1 TFLOPS. Also, it has a high-bandwidth cache controller and 16GB of ultra fast HBM2 RAM and supports an 8K display. This first Vega GPU is aimed at professional workstation users and although it is not a gaming card, its game performance benchmarks are underwhelming albeit good. It broadly matches the performance of NVIDIA's now year old GTX 1080, but at nearly twice the price ($550 for the 1080 versus a list price of $1000 for the air-cooled Vega Frontier Edition). There is also a water-cooled edition of the Vega Frontier which commands an additional $500 premium on the list price. There will be gaming variants of Vega based cards available shortly and, depending on their entry price, these may prove to be more interesting to the consumer/gamer market. ^{[Jul '17 GPUPro]}

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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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Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
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WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
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