Radeon RX 5600 XT vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon VII, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1400 MHz. The HBM2 memory works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this model. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (84%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon VII is 205% quicker than the Radeon RX 5600 XT overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 704512 (205%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII will be much (about 70%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 5600 XT. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 138000 (70%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon VII is the winner, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.