Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G
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MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX

The Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G 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 5600 XT Gaming MX has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.62 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 7.48 TFLOPS.

The Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 5 architecture, which has 56 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX is based on the RDNA 1 architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.

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

The MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX has a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

The Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G has a turbo clock of 1.471 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX is 1.620 GHz.

The Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G 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 5600 XT Gaming MX is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX is cooled by a Air cooling.

The Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version --.

The MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

The Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX 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 Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G was released in Q3/2017.

The MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX published in Q1/2020 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.