AMD Radeon RX 5600 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5600 6 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

3570 points
502% significantly better overall score
593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

77 FPS
64 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

56 FPS
46 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

69 FPS
57 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1479 points
3% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
1426 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

609.00 points
587% significantly higher Blender score
88.64 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

48650 points
455% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
8763 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37453 points
318% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
8956 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

76653 points
615% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
10718 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

62239 points
569% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
9296 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53743 points
371% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
11397 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1130 MHz
276% significantly higher core clock speed
300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1560 MHz
2000 MHz
28% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W
45 W
233% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

99.84 Gigapixels/s
523% significantly higher pixel rate
16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199.68 Gigatexels/s
212% significantly higher texture rate
64 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.39 TFLOPS
212% significantly better floating point performance
2.05 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048
300% significantly more shading units
512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128
300% significantly more texture mapping units
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
700% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

135th of 586
309th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series
-

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January
2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
-

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 5600 vs Radeon Vega 8 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5600 graphics card is better than the Radeon Vega 8 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5600 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 slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5600 at 150 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 5600 is faster than the Radeon Vega 8.

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