Sapphire RX Vega 56 Pulse Spotted
Sapphire RX Vega 56 Pulse Spotted
This custom Vega design comes with both custom PCB and cooler designs, removing the RGB illumination and other advanced features included in the Nitro to deliver a more affordable price point. The RX Vega 56 offers a shorter PCB design and a dual fan cooler to achieve clock speeds that are higher than AMD’s reference models, though Sapphire’s Nitro models will provide a performance lead overall.Â
The Vega 56 Pulse is powered by dual 8-pin PCIe power connections, making this design very similar to AMD’s reference RX Vega 56, albeit with a shorter PCB design and a custom cooling solution. Â
| Â | RX Vega 56 Reference | Sapphire RX Vega 56 Pulse | Sapphire RX Vega 56 Nitro | RX Vega 64 Reference | Sapphire RX Vega 64 Nitro |
| GPU Archtecture | Vega | Vega | Vega | Vega | Vega |
| Processing cores | 3584 | 3584 | 3584 | 4096 | 4096 |
| Core Base Clock | 1156MHz | 1208MHz | 1305MHz | 1247MHz | 1423MHz |
| Core Boost Clock | 1471MHz | 1512MHz | 1572MHz | 1546MHz | 1611MHz |
| Memory | 8GB HBM2 | 8GB HBM2 | 8GB HBM2 | 8GB HBM2 | 8GB HBM2 |
| Memory Clock | 800MHz | 800MHz | 800MHz | 945MHz | 945MHz |
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Looking at the specification of this new GPU model we can see that Sapphire has decided to keep the RX Vega 56’s HBM2 memory clock speeds untouched, which is the same as what Sapphire did with their higher-end Nitro model. It is likely that AMD has prevented AIBs from overclocking the HBM2 memory on their GPUs.Â
At this time it is unknown if Sapphire has plans to release an RX Vega 64 Pulse series GPU.
  
You can join the discussion on Sapphire’s RX Vega 56 Pulse graphics card on the OC3D Forums.  Â