Radeon RX 550 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon VII, which has clock speeds of 1400 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 TAUs 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 VII		27400 points
Radeon RX 550		3507 points
	Difference: 23893 (681%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 245 Watts (490%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon VII, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon RX 550 in general. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 933888 (814%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII should be a lot (about 855%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 300800 (855%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon VII is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 72000 (409%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core 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 lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.