Radeon R9 285 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1156 MHz. The HBM2 RAM works at a frequency of 1600 MHz on this model. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 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 R9 285		8500 points
	Difference: 12511 (147%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 285		190 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (11%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should theoretically perform a lot faster than the Radeon R9 285 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
Radeon R9 285		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 243430 (138%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is much (more or less 152%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 285. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 285		102816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 156128 (152%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be much (about 152%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 285, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285		29376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 44608 (152%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip 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 colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.