Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56
vs
Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 2080 Neptune OC-V


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 and the Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 2080 Neptune OC-V, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 is based on the AMD RX Vega 56 and has 3584 texture shaders and 56 execution units.

Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 2080 Neptune OC-V is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080, which has 2944 shaders and 46 execution units.
Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 GPU Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 2080 Neptune OC-V
AMD RX Vega 56 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Vega 10 XL GPU Chip TU104
GCN 5 Architecture Turing
56 Streaming Multiprocessors 46
3584 Shader 2944
64 Render Output Units 64
256 Texture Units 184
0 Raytracing Cores 46

Memory

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type HBM2 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 410 GB/s.

The Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 2080 Neptune OC-V 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 Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 clocks in the base with up to 1.266 GHz. The base frequency of the Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 2080 Neptune OC-V is 1.515 GHz.

1.266 GHz Base Clock 1.515 GHz
1.550 GHz Boost Clock 1.875 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.71 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 is 325 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 2080 Neptune OC-V has a TDP of 215 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

325 W TDP 215 W
-- TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 88 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 2080 Neptune OC-V has 3 Radial / Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial / Axial
2 x 92 mm Fan 1 1 x 75 mm
1 x 80 mm Fan 2 2 x 120 mm
Air cooling Cooler-Type AIO water cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 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 Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56.

The Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 2080 Neptune OC-V supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
-- HDCP-Version 2.2
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports 1

Featureset

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 2080 Neptune OC-V is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED iGame Energy Core

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 Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 is 310 mm long, 133 mm high and 54 mm wide.

The Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 2080 Neptune OC-V is 293 mm long, 147 mm high and 45 mm wide.

310 mm Length 293 mm
133 mm Height 147 mm
54 mm Width 45 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 2000 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 was released in Q3/2017 at a price of 399 $ (Reference).

The Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 2080 Neptune OC-V was introduced in Q3/2018 at a price of 699 $ (Reference).

11276-01-40G Part-no --
Q3/2017 Release date Q3/2018
399 $ (Reference) Launch Price 699 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 12 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)

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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