Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon VII, which has core clock 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 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

As far as performance goes, the Radeon VII should theoretically be a lot superior to the Radeon RX 460 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII will be a lot (approximately 450%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 460. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon VII is superior to the Radeon RX 460, by a large margin. (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 largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.