Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon VII, which has core clock speeds of 1400 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 3840 SPUs along with 240 Texture Address Units 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

As far as performance goes, the Radeon VII should in theory be quite a bit better 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 AF than the Radeon RX 560. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon VII is superior to the Radeon RX 560, and very much so. (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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.