PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil
vs
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 2X 8G LHR


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil and the MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 2X 8G LHR, 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.

MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 2X 8G LHR is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 LHR, which has 5888 shaders and 46 execution units.
PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil GPU MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 2X 8G LHR
AMD RX Vega 56 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 LHR
Vega 10 XL GPU Chip GA104-302-A1
GCN 5 Architecture Ampere
56 Streaming Multiprocessors 46
3584 Shader 5888
64 Render Output Units 96
256 Texture Units 184
0 Raytracing Cores 46

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 MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 2X 8G LHR can access 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
HBM2 Memory Type GDDR6
0.800 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
1.6 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
410 GB/s Memory bandwidth 448 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 MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 2X 8G LHR is 1.500 GHz.

1.308 GHz Base Clock 1.500 GHz
1.526 GHz Boost Clock 1.725 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
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 MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 2X 8G LHR has a TDP of 220 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

210 W TDP 220 W
-- TDP (up) 250 W
100 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

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

The MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 2X 8G LHR 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) 43-44 dB

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 MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 2X 8G LHR supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
-- HDCP-Version 2.3
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- 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 MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 2X 8G LHR is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
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 Decode
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 MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 2X 8G LHR is 232 mm long, 124 mm high and 52 mm wide.

316 mm Length 232 mm
150 mm Height 124 mm
55 mm Width 52 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 832 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

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

The MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ventus 2X 8G LHR was introduced in Q2/2021 at a price of 549 $.

AXRX VEGA 56 8GBHBM2-2D2HD/OC Part-no --
Q3/2017 Release date Q2/2021
399 $ (Reference) Launch Price 549 $
14 nm Structure size 8 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

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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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