Radeon R9 270 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which features GPU core speed of 1156 MHz, and 8192 MB of HBM2 RAM running at 1600 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also is comprised of 3584 Stream Processors, 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 R9 270		5943 points
	Difference: 15068 (254%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 270		150 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (40%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R9 270 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 240230 (134%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be a lot (about 260%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 270. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 186944 (260%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 45184 (157%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.