PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil
vs
ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 OC 8G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil and the ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 OC 8G, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil is based on the AMD RX Vega 56 and has 3584 texture shaders and 56 execution units.

ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 OC 8G is based on AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU), which has 2304 shaders and 36 execution units.
PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil GPU ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 OC 8G
AMD RX Vega 56 Based on AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU)
Vega 10 XL GPU Chip Polaris 20 XT
GCN 5 Architecture GCN 4
56 Streaming Multiprocessors 36
3584 Shader 2304
64 Render Output Units 32
256 Texture Units 144
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type HBM2 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 410 GB/s.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 OC 8G can access 8 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
HBM2 Memory Type GDDR5
0.800 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
1.6 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
410 GB/s Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s
2048 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil clocks in the base with up to 1.308 GHz. The base frequency of the ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 OC 8G is 1.257 GHz.

1.308 GHz Base Clock 1.257 GHz
1.526 GHz Boost Clock 1.380 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.36 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil is 210 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 OC 8G has a TDP of 185 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

210 W TDP 185 W
-- TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 90 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 OC 8G has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 OC 8G supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
-- HDCP-Version 2.2
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 2x HDMI v2.0b
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 2x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 OC 8G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil is 316 mm long, 150 mm high and 55 mm wide.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 OC 8G is 242 mm long, 129 mm high and 38 mm wide.

316 mm Length 242 mm
150 mm Height 129 mm
55 mm Width 38 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil was released in Q3/2017 at a price of 399 $ (Reference).

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 OC 8G was introduced in Q4/2017 at a price of 229 $.

AXRX VEGA 56 8GBHBM2-2D2HD/OC Part-no DUAL-RX580-O8G
Q3/2017 Release date Q4/2017
399 $ (Reference) Launch Price 229 $
14 nm Structure size 14 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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