Radeon Pro Duo vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon VII, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1400 MHz. The HBM2 RAM runs at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular 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 Pro Duo		27167 points
	Difference: 233 (1%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon VII		295 Watts
Radeon Pro Duo		350 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (19%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon VII should theoretically be just a bit faster than the Radeon Pro Duo overall. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
Radeon Pro Duo		1024000 MB/sec
	Difference: 24576 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Pro Duo should be much (more or less 52%) better at AF than the Radeon VII. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		512000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 176000 (52%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon Pro Duo is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		128000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 38400 (43%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the 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 the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.