Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which has core clock speeds of 1156 MHz on the GPU, and 1600 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 memory. 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 460		5595 points
	Difference: 15416 (276%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (180%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX Vega 56, in theory, should be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 460 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 307430 (274%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be quite a bit (more or less 324%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 460. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 197904 (324%)

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 460, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 56544 (324%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.