Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon VII, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1400 MHz. The HBM2 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this specific model. It features 3840 SPUs along with 240 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 VII		27400 points
Radeon RX 460		5595 points
	Difference: 21805 (390%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 220 Watts (293%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon VII should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 460 in general. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 936576 (836%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII should be a lot (more or less 450%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 460. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 274960 (450%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon VII is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 72160 (414%)

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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.