Comparison of Radeon R9 295X2 and Radeon RX Vega 56

Attribute	Radeon R9 295X2 ×	Radeon RX Vega 56 ×
GPU
Release year (year)	2014	2017
Reference card	AMD Radeon R9 295X2 1 GHz 8 GB	-
GPU brand	AMD	AMD
GPU name	Vesuvius	Vega 10
Market	Desktop	-
Clock speed (MHz)	1,018	1,156
Turbo clock speed (MHz)	-	1,471
Is dual GPU	+	-
Model	Radeon R9 295X2	Radeon RX Vega 56
Memory
Memory (MB)	8,192	8,192
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	-	409.6
Memory bus (bit)	24	48
Memory type	GDDR5	-
Memory clock speed (MHz)	1,250	800
Effective memory clock speed (MHz)	5,000	1,600
Noise and power
TDP (W)	500	210
Raw performance
Pixel rate (GPixel/s)	130.4	94.14
Render output processors	128	64
Texture mapping units	352	224
Shading units	5,632	3,584
Floating-point performance (GFLOPS)	11,466	10,544
Compute units	88	56
Texture rate (GTexel/s)	358.4	329.5
Benchmarks
Particle simulation (mInteraction/s)	651.4	1086.94
T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) (frames/s)	10.68	12.8
Video composition (frames/s)	-	110.37
Cloud Gate Factor	24.18	-
Face detection (mPixels/s)	116.41	183.78
Bitcoin mining (mHash/s)	614.07	1108.39
Sky Diver Factor	497.21	-
Fire Strike Factor	89.78	-
Ocean surface simulation (frames/s)	1997.66	1769.36