AMD Radeon RX 570 vs AMD Radeon Vega 6

Compare AMD Radeon RX 570 8 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 6, 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

1929 points

512% significantly better overall score

315 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

40 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3841 points

366% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

823 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41087 points

486% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7003 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

42870 points

530% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

6797 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41113 points

471% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

7199 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47019 points

586% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

6854 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1168 MHz

289% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1244 MHz

1700 MHz

36% 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

39.81 Gigapixels/s

192% significantly higher pixel rate

13.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

159.2 Gigatexels/s

290% significantly higher texture rate

40.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

433% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

433% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

214th of 586

370th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2021 April

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 570 vs Radeon Vega 6 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 570 GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 6 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 570 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 6 has a slightly 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 6 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 570 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 570 over the Radeon Vega 6.