Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1156 MHz, and 8192 MB of HBM2 memory running at 1600 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also features 3584 SPUs, 224 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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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 480		13349 points
	Difference: 7662 (57%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (40%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX Vega 56, in theory, should be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 480 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 157286 (60%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be quite a bit (approximately 61%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 97664 (61%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 38144 (106%)

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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.