Radeon R9 M370X vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1156 MHz and a HBM2 memory speed of 1600 MHz. It also features a 2048-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 3584 SPUs, 224 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should be much faster than the Radeon R9 M370X in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 347430 (483%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be much (more or less 709%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 226944 (709%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 will be a lot (about 478%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 M370X, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 61184 (478%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill 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 ability to get to the maximum fill rate.