Radeon RX 550 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1156 MHz. The HBM2 memory runs at a frequency of 1600 MHz on this specific model. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX Vega 56		21011 points
Radeon RX 550		3507 points
	Difference: 17504 (499%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 160 Watts (320%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX Vega 56 is 266% quicker than the Radeon RX 550 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 304742 (266%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 will be much (about 636%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 223744 (636%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is superior to the Radeon RX 550, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 56384 (320%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.