AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 1560 MHz vs 1301 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
Launch date 21 Jan 2020 vs 1 June 2018
Boost clock speed 1560 MHz vs 1301 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 14 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

  • Around 1% higher core clock speed: 1138 MHz vs 1130 MHz
  • Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • Around 7% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 8917 vs 3719
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 8917 vs 3719
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1138 MHz vs 1130 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8917 vs 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8917 vs 3719

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3719
8917
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3719
8917
Name AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
PassMark - G3D Mark 13490
PassMark - G2D Mark 871
Geekbench - OpenCL 64726
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 207.909
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3560.776
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 20.486
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 148.938
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1111.648
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 13621
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3719 8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 13621
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3719 8917
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1669

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 GCN 5.0
Code name Navi 10 XLE Vega 10
Launch date 21 Jan 2020 1 June 2018
Launch price (MSRP) $279
Place in performance rating 210 133
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1560 MHz 1301 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1130 MHz 1138 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 449.3 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 14.38 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 7.188 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2304
Pixel fill rate 99.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 224.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 120 Watt
Transistor count 10300 million 12,500 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count 3
DisplayPort support
HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 10.5 inches (267 mm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin
Width Dual-slot

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR6