Radeon R9 M365X vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1156 MHz. The HBM2 memory runs at a frequency of 1600 MHz on this specific model. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX Vega 56, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon R9 M365X in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 347430 (483%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be much (more or less 600%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M365X. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		37000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 221944 (600%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is superior to the Radeon R9 M365X, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		14800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 59184 (400%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out 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 processed per second.

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