AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 vs AMD Radeon RX 560

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 and AMD Radeon RX 560 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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 6

AMD Radeon RX 560

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 6

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later

Launch date	7 January 2018 vs 18 April 2017

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560

Around 9% higher boost clock speed: 1200-1275 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 52% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 486 vs 320
3.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3657 vs 1015

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1200-1275 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	486 vs 320
PassMark - G3D Mark	3657 vs 1015

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 6
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 560

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

320

486

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1015

3657

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6	AMD Radeon RX 560
PassMark - G2D Mark	320	486
PassMark - G3D Mark	1015	3657
Geekbench - OpenCL		57671
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		56.81
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		775.281
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.602
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		64.428
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		257.062
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6571
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3352
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6571
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3352
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1774

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6	AMD Radeon RX 560
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5th gen	GCN 4.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Polaris 21
Launch date	7 January 2018	18 April 2017
Place in performance rating	482	513
Type	Laptop	Desktop, Laptop
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP)		$99
Price now		$104.99
Value for money (0-100)		54.35
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	1200-1275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	14 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	384
Transistor count	4500 million	3,000 million
Compute units		14/16
Core clock speed		1090-1175 MHz
Floating-point performance		2.6 TFLOPs
Pipelines		1024
Pixel fill rate		20.40 GP/s
Render output units		16
Stream Processors		896/1024
Texture fill rate		81.60 GTexel/s
Texture Units		64
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		60-80 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.1	12
OpenCL	2.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.0
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x8
Length		170 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)		450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors		None
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		112 GB/s
Memory bus width		128 bit
Memory clock speed		7000 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)