Sapphire Radeon RX Vega 56
vs
ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G

The Sapphire Radeon RX Vega 56 has 3584 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.47 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 10.54 TFLOPS.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.36 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.68 TFLOPS.

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

The graphics card ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.

The Sapphire Radeon RX Vega 56 is equipped with a 8 GB large HBM2 graphics memory, which is equipped with 0.800 GHz clocks.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

The Sapphire Radeon RX Vega 56 has a turbo clock of 1.471 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G is 1.360 GHz.

The Sapphire Radeon RX Vega 56 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 ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 90 °C.

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

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.

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

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

The Sapphire Radeon RX Vega 56 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.

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.

The Sapphire Radeon RX Vega 56 is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

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

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G published in Q4/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.