AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Now Available To Purchase

The AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics cards are available to purchase as of 8am CDT this morning! We noticed the XFX Radeon RX Vega 56 was available and in-stock for purchase for $399 shipped on Amazon, but before we could even add one to our cart it was gone. Newegg also sold out in seconds from what we saw. AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 graphics cards were in tight supply, so it isn’t a big shock that the Radeon RX Vega 56 shares the same issue. Word on the street is that it may be until October for decent for either model. The AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics card was the most interesting in our review as it competes nicely against the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card in many DirectX 12 benchmarks. It features a slightly disabled Vega 10 GPU and slower HBM2 memory, but packs a pretty good punch for $399.

The AM D Radeon Vega 56 has 56 Compute Units with 3,584 stream processors running at up to 1471MHz for 10.5 TFLOPS of peak single-precision compute performance. Vega 56 has 8GB of HBM2 memory running at 1.60 GHz (effective) and that gives this model a solid 410 GB/s of memory bandwidth. When it is comes to board power you are looking at 210 Watts for this model. Not bad specifications for a card that has a $399 MSRP, but the kicker here is that both the Vega 56 and the Vega 64 are nearly impossible to buy.