AMD Radeon RX 560X vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

Compare AMD Radeon RX 560X 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

482 points

593 points

23% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

8 FPS

10 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

11 FPS

12 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS

5 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1836 points

28% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1426 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23094 points

163% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

8763 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19900 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8956 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20500 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9296 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20126 points

76% 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

75 W

45 W

66% 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

332nd of 586

309th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March

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

4.6

Radeon RX 560X vs Radeon Vega 8 comparison

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

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 560X has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 560X at 75 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon Vega 8 is better than the Radeon RX 560X.