Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which has a clock frequency of 1156 MHz and a HBM2 memory frequency of 1600 MHz. It also makes use of a 2048-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 3584 SPUs, 224 TAUs, 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 R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 16901 (411%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 110 Watts (110%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should be 303% faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 315430 (303%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is much (more or less 414%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 208544 (414%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 57184 (340%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core 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 fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.