AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core Processor vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Comparative analysis of AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core Processor and AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 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 - 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 Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core Processor

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 768 vs 599
7.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13093 vs 1729

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	768 vs 599
PassMark - G3D Mark	13093 vs 1729

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core Processor
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

599

768

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1729

13093

Name	AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core Processor	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
PassMark - G2D Mark	599	768
PassMark - G3D Mark	1729	13093
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 Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core Processor	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
Essentials
Place in performance rating	226	224
Architecture		GCN 5.0
Code name		Vega 10
Design		Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch date		14 August 2017
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed		1471 MHz
Compute units		56
Core clock speed		1156 MHz
Floating-point performance		10.5 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology		14 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
Texture Units		256
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		210 Watt
Transistor count		12,500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)		650 Watt
Supplementary power connectors		2x 8-pin
API support
DirectX		12
OpenCL		2.0
OpenGL		4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory bandwidth		410 GB/s
Memory bus width		2048 bit
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz
Memory type		HBM2
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
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