AMD Radeon RX 560 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

Compare AMD Radeon RX 560 4 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 8, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

825 points

39% slightly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

18 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1833 points

28% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1426 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

130.09 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

88.64 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21086 points

140% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

8763 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19493 points

117% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8956 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23476 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

10718 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20226 points

117% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9296 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23100 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11397 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1175 MHz

291% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1275 MHz

2000 MHz

56% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

45 W

77% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.4 Gigapixels/s

27% slightly higher pixel rate

16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

81.6 Gigatexels/s

27% slightly higher texture rate

64 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.61 TFLOPS

27% slightly better floating point performance

2.05 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

100% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

275th of 586

309th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon Vega 8 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 560 GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 560 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 560 at 80 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 560 over the Radeon Vega 8.