Biostar Radeon RX Vega 56 8G
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Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G

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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G has 1408 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.85 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.20 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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G is based on the RDNA 1 architecture and is equipped with 22 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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G has a 8 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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G is 1.845 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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 95 °C.

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

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.

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

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G 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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G 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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT 8G published in Q3/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.