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Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon VII

Intro

The Radeon RX 560 makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1175 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon VII, which features core 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 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560 80 Watts
Radeon VII 295 Watts
Difference: 215 Watts (269%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon VII should theoretically be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 560 overall. (explain)

Radeon VII 1048576 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560 114688 MB/sec
Difference: 933888 (814%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII should be a lot (about 347%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 560. (explain)

Radeon VII 336000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 560 75200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 260800 (347%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon VII will be a lot (about 377%) better at FSAA than the Radeon RX 560, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon VII 89600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560 18800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 70800 (377%)

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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon RX 560 Radeon VII
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year May 2017 2019
Code Name Baffin Vega 20 XT
Memory 4096 MB 16384 MB
Core Speed 1175 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 1000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 80 watts 295 watts
Bandwidth 114688 MB/sec 1048576 MB/sec
Texel Rate 75200 Mtexels/sec 336000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 18800 Mpixels/sec 89600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1024 3840
Texture Mapping Units 64 240
Render Output Units 16 64
Bus Type GDDR5 HBM2
Bus Width 128-bit 4096-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 7 nm
Transistors 3000 million 13230 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock 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 of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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Radeon RX 560

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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