AMD Radeon Pro V520 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro V520 and AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon Pro V520

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro V520

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 23% higher boost clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1301 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
Around 88% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 16807 vs 8917
Around 88% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 16807 vs 8917

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 Dec 2020 vs 1 June 2018
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1301 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	16807 vs 8917
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	16807 vs 8917

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Around 14% higher core clock speed: 1138 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 225 Watt
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)

Core clock speed	1138 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro V520
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

16807

8917

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

16807

8917

Name	AMD Radeon Pro V520	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark	525
PassMark - G3D Mark	12258
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	13220
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	13220
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	16807	8917
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	16807	8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	37642
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	37642
Geekbench - OpenCL	61570

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro V520	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	GCN 5.0
Code name	Navi 12	Vega 10
Launch date	1 Dec 2020	1 June 2018
Place in performance rating	61	134
Type	Server	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	1301 MHz
Compute units	36
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	1138 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	460.8 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	14.75 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	7.373 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2304
Pixel fill rate	102.4 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	230.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	120 Watt
Transistor count		12,500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin
Width	111 mm (4.4 inches)
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	512 GB/s
Memory bus width	2048 bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)	1600 MHz
Memory type	HBM2