Radeon RX 550 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon VII, which features a clock speed of 1400 MHz and a HBM2 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also features a 4096-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is made up of 3840 SPUs, 240 TAUs, 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 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

In theory, the Radeon VII should perform a lot 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 is much (about 855%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon VII is superior to the Radeon RX 550, by a large margin. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.