Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which features a clock speed 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 features 3584 SPUs, 224 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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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 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 16630 (380%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (83%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should theoretically be much faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 315430 (303%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be a lot (about 320%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 197344 (320%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be quite a bit (about 320%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 56384 (320%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.