AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT PCI

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT PCI 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: 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.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 4 month(s) later
4.9x more core clock speed: 1156 MHz vs 235 MHz
351.1x more texture fill rate: 330.00 GTexel/s vs 940 MTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 130 nm
128x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 64 MB
4x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 400 MHz

Launch date	14 August 2017 vs 17 March 2003
Core clock speed	1156 MHz vs 235 MHz
Texture fill rate	330.00 GTexel/s vs 940 MTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT PCI

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT PCI
PassMark - G3D Mark	13093
PassMark - G2D Mark	768
Geekbench - OpenCL	163998
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	184.405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1765.06
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	12.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	79.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1022.925
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1501

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT PCI
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	Rankine
Code name	Vega 10	NV31 A1
Design	Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch date	14 August 2017	17 March 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$399
Place in performance rating	224	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1471 MHz
Compute units	56
Core clock speed	1156 MHz	235 MHz
Floating-point performance	10.5 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	130 nm
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	21 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.5 TFLOPs
Pipelines	3584
Pixel fill rate	94.00 GP/s
Render output units	64
Stream Processors	3584
Texture fill rate	330.00 GTexel/s	940 MTexel / s
Texture Units	256
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	210 Watt
Transistor count	12,500 million	80 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCI
Length	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	650 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12	9.0a
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	1.5 (2.1)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	410 GB/s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	2048 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	DDR
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore