Radeon RX Vega 56 vs GeForce GTX TITAN Z

Radeon RX Vega 56
Memory: 8192Mb HBM2DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Aug 2017
Radeon RX Vega 56
GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 28 May 2014
GeForce GTX TITAN Z

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX Vega 56

165 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX TITAN Z .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX TITAN Z

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX Vega 56GeForce GTX TITAN Z
GPU NameVega 10 (Vega 10 XL)vsGK110B (GK110-430-B1)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size484 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors12,500 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders3584vs2880
Compute Units56vs15
Core clock1156 MHzvs705 MHz
ROPs64vs48
TMUs224vs240

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX Vega 56GeForce GTX TITAN Z
Memory TypeHBM2vsGDDR5
Bus Width2048 bitvs384 bit x2
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX Vega 56GeForce GTX TITAN Z
TDP210 wattsvs375 watts
Release Date8 Aug 2017vs28 May 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX Vega 56
    94.14 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    84.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX Vega 56
    329.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    338.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX Vega 56
    409.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    672.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX Vega 56
    10544.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    8122.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better