AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), 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 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm
  • 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 8917 vs 3716
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 8917 vs 3716
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 June 2018 vs 10 March 2017
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8917 vs 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8917 vs 3716

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)

  • Around 30% higher core clock speed: 1481 MHz vs 1138 MHz
  • Around 22% higher boost clock speed: 1582 MHz vs 1301 MHz
  • 6.9x more memory clock speed: 11008 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Core clock speed 1481 MHz vs 1138 MHz
Boost clock speed 1582 MHz vs 1301 MHz
Memory clock speed 11008 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8917
3716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8917
3716
Name AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8917 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8917 3716
PassMark - G3D Mark 18555
PassMark - G2D Mark 938
Geekbench - OpenCL 62051
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 205.837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2406.499
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 19.591
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 25.833
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1002.573
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 15019
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 15019
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 9874

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 Pascal
Code name Vega 10 GP102
Launch date 1 June 2018 10 March 2017
Place in performance rating 135 201
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Price now $826.98
Value for money (0-100) 27.48

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1301 MHz 1582 MHz
Core clock speed 1138 MHz 1481 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 12,500 million 11,800 million
Floating-point performance 11,340 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature 91 °C
Pipelines 3584
Texture fill rate 354.4 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 11008 MHz
Maximum RAM amount 11 GB
Memory bandwidth 484.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 352 Bit
Memory type GDDR5X
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
HDMI 2.0b
PCIe 3.0
SLI
Virtual Reality