Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare those specifications 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 speed of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 3840 SPUs along with 240 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 145 Watts (97%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon VII, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 5500 overall. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 819200 (357%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII is a lot (approximately 129%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 189040 (129%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon VII is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36160 (68%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of 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 higher this number, 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 can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.