Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56
vs
KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56 is based on the AMD RX Vega 56 (GCN 5) and has 8 GB HBM2 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 410 GB/s.

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER (Turing) and has 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

GPU

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56 has the Vega 10 XL graphics chip installed, which is based on the GCN 5 architecture.

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER is based on the graphics chip TU106, which comes from the Turing architecture.
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56 GPU KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
AMD RX Vega 56 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
Vega 10 XL GPU Chip TU106
GCN 5 Architecture Turing
56 Streaming Multiprocessors 34
3584 Shader 2176
64 Render Output Units 64
256 Texture Units 136
0 Raytracing Cores 34

Memory

The graphics memory of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56 clocks at 0.800 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 1.6 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER is 14.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.750 GHz.

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 clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.208 GHz Base Clock 1.470 GHz
1.512 GHz Boost Clock 1.650 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56 is powered by 2 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 280 W.

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER has 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 175 W.

280 W TDP 175 W
-- TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 89 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56 is equipped with a total of 2 Axial main fans.

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER has 1 Radial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56.

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

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

Featureset

With the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56 it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 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 can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

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

Dimensions

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56 is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes and requires 3 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 3.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

282 mm Length 283 mm
125 mm Height 139 mm
50 mm Width 41 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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56 has been manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers since Q3/2017.

The KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER came on the market in Q3/2019 and will have a structure width of 12 nanometers manufactured.

11276-01-40G Part-no 26ISL6MDZ8BK
Q3/2017 Release date Q3/2019
399 $ (Reference) Launch Price 399 $ (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 2060 SUPER KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
8 GB GDDR6
28 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
8 GB GDDR6
34 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
8 GB GDDR6
52 fps (avg)

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.

2560x1440 (1440p)

KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
8 GB GDDR6
30 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
8 GB GDDR6
62 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 Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56
8 GB HBM2
44 fps (avg)
KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
8 GB GDDR6
50 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56
8 GB HBM2
82 fps (avg)
KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
8 GB GDDR6
94 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX Vega 56
8 GB HBM2
115 fps (avg)
KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
8 GB GDDR6
130 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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