Radeon RX 550 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which features core speeds of 1156 MHz on the GPU, and 1600 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 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 RX Vega 56		21011 points
Radeon RX 550		3507 points
	Difference: 17504 (499%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 160 Watts (320%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should theoretically be a lot better than the Radeon RX 550 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 304742 (266%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 will be much (more or less 636%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 223744 (636%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is superior to the Radeon RX 550, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 56384 (320%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of 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 is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.