Radeon R9 M365X vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which has a core clock frequency of 1156 MHz and a HBM2 memory speed of 1600 MHz. It also makes use of a 2048-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It features 3584 SPUs, 224 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to 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 a lot (about 600%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 M365X. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is much (approximately 400%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M365X, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.