Radeon RX 5600 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon VII, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1400 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 memory set to run at 1000 MHz through a 4096-bit bus. It also is comprised of 3840 Stream Processors, 240 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 145 Watts (97%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon VII should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 5600 overall. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
	Difference: 753664 (256%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII will be a lot (about 91%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 160000 (91%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon VII is a small bit (more or less 2%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5600, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1600 (2%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range 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 of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.