Radeon RX Vega 56
AMD graphics card · Radeon RX Vega series · launched August 2017
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Launch price in today's dollars
The Radeon RX Vega 56 launched at $399 in 2017. Adjusted with the U.S. Consumer Price Index, that is about $539 in 2026 dollars (7-month average), a 35% rise over 9 years. At its launch price that is 151 Blender points per $100.
Method: launch price × (CPI 2026 average ÷ CPI 2017 average), calendar-year averages of BLS series CPIAUCSL. 2026 covers 7 months so far.
Blender rendering score
Median score 603 (middle half of runs 580–628) across 6 community runs on Blender 4.x with the METAL backend. That is #73 of 103 graphics cards in our dataset with a score.
This is a rendering benchmark (samples per minute over the monster, junkshop and classroom scenes), not a gaming benchmark. It says how fast the part renders in Blender's Cycles engine and nothing about frame rates. Source: Blender Open Data, CC0, snapshot 2026-09-06.
Specifications
| Vendor | AMD |
|---|---|
| Series | Radeon RX Vega series |
| Launched | August 2017 |
| Launch price | $399 |
| Architecture | GCN 5 |
| Chip | Radeon RX Vega 56 (Vega 10) |
| Memory | 8 GB |
| Memory type | HBM2 |
| Memory bus | 2048-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 409.6 GB/s |
| Core clock | 1,156 MHz |
| FP32 compute | 10.54 TFLOPS |
| Rated power | 210 W (TBP) |
| Transistors | 12.5 billion |
| Die size | 486 mm² |
| Process | 5 nm |
| Bus interface | PCIe 3.0 ×16 |
Compare with
- Radeon RX Vega 64 · 2017 · $499
- GeForce GTX 1070 Ti · 2017 · $399 · 592
- GeForce GTX 1070 · 2016 · $379 · 532
- GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X · 2018 · $379
- GeForce GTX 1080 · 2016 · $599 · 577
- GeForce RTX 2070 · 2018 · $499 · 2,111
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