Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 LE
vs
KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 LE has 3584 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.57 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 11.26 TFLOPS.

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC has 2944 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.85 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 10.87 TFLOPS.

GPU

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 LE is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 5 architecture, which has 56 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 46 execution units.
Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 LE GPU KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC
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 LE is equipped with a 8 GB large HBM2 graphics memory, which is equipped with 0.800 GHz clocks.

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

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 LE has a turbo clock of 1.572 GHz. The turbo frequency of the KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC is 1.845 GHz.

1.266 GHz Base Clock 1.515 GHz
1.572 GHz Boost Clock 1.845 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.71 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 LE 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 KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 88 °C.

325 W TDP 215 W
-- TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 88 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 LE are cooled with a Air cooling.

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 92 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
1 x 80 mm Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 LE supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version --.

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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 LE supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
Addressable LED LED Addressable LED

Supported Video Codecs

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.

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 LE is 54 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC is 54 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

310 mm Length 295 mm
133 mm Height 143 mm
54 mm Width 52 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 LE was released in Q3/2017.

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC published in Q3/2018 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.

11276-00-40G Part-no 28NSL6UCU9OK
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)

KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC
8 GB GDDR6
41 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC
8 GB GDDR6
50 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC
8 GB GDDR6
71 fps (avg)

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)

Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 LE Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 LE
8 GB HBM2
46 fps (avg)
KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC
8 GB GDDR6
69 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 LE Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 LE
8 GB HBM2
85 fps (avg)
KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC
8 GB GDDR6
125 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 LE Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 LE
8 GB HBM2
120 fps (avg)
KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 EX OC
8 GB GDDR6
175 fps (avg)

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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