AMD has officially launched the Radeon RX Vega 56 and it shouldn't be a surprise that AIB partners around the globe are releasing cards based on this new GPU. The RX Vega 56 features a Vega 10 GPU with 56 compute units, 3'584 stream processors and 8GB of HBM2 memory. Frequency wise, the core clock speed is set to 1'156MHz with a boost clock speed of 1'471MHz.



At the moment four of AMD’s AIB partners have unveiled their RX Vega 56 graphics cards. The RX Vega 56 cards from Gigabyte, Sapphire and XFX are reference models equipped with a blower-type fan paired to a red and black plastic fan shroud. The heat sink features a large copper vapor chamber with aluminum fins.

So far only ASUS is offering a card with non-reference design cooler. It features a large heatsink with several heatpipes that should provide more surface area compared to its previous dual-slot design. The heatsink is being cooled by three fans.

Regarding the outputs, this GPU comes with a HDMI 2.0b port and three DisplayPort 1.4 connectors. Depending on demand and availability, the reference design cards will have a price close to $400 US. The graphics cards with custom cooler or even custom design will certainly come with a heftier price tag. Since the cards have now been available for a few hours already, it's hard to tell what kind of effect the Ethereum mining craze will have on pricing and availability. Meanwhile all the stocks on MindFactory, OverclockersUK and Newegg are empty and you can only do a pre-order.

Due to the price and the good price/performance ratio, the RX Vega 56 graphics card is the most interesting model in the Vega family.




Source: Techpowerup