Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1156 MHz, and 8192 MB of HBM2 memory running at 1600 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also is made up of 3584 SPUs, 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 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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be a lot (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 lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is the winner, by a large margin. (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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once 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 applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.