Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon VII, which has a core clock frequency of 1400 MHz and a HBM2 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 4096-bit bus, and makes use of 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 R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 23019 (525%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 180 Watts (157%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon VII should in theory perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 944576 (908%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII should be quite a bit (about 445%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 274400 (445%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon VII is superior to the Radeon R7 260X, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs 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 output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.