ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56
vs
MSI Radeon RX 5700 8G

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 has 3584 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.47 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 10.54 TFLOPS.

The MSI Radeon RX 5700 8G has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.73 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 7.95 TFLOPS.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 5 architecture, which has 56 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI Radeon RX 5700 8G is based on the RDNA 1 architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 is equipped with a 8 GB large HBM2 graphics memory, which is equipped with 0.800 GHz clocks.

The MSI Radeon RX 5700 8G has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 has a turbo clock of 1.471 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI Radeon RX 5700 8G is 1.725 GHz.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 100 °C.

The MSI Radeon RX 5700 8G is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI Radeon RX 5700 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version --.

The MSI Radeon RX 5700 8G supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The MSI Radeon RX 5700 8G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI Radeon RX 5700 8G is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, ASUS Radeon RX Vega 56 was released in Q3/2017.

The MSI Radeon RX 5700 8G published in Q3/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.