Radeon RX 590 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon VII, which features core speeds of 1400 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (69%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon VII should be 300% quicker than the Radeon RX 590 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 786432 (300%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII should be a lot (more or less 59%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 590. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 124464 (59%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon VII is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 42592 (91%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher 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 that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.