Radeon RX 5700 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon VII, which comes with 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 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 115 Watts (64%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon VII should in theory be a lot superior to the Radeon RX 5700 overall. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 589824 (129%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII is quite a bit (approximately 59%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5700. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 125040 (59%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 is the winner, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4160 (5%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.