Radeon RX 5700 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon VII, which has clock speeds of 1400 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon VII will be 129% faster than the Radeon RX 5700 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII should be a lot (approximately 59%) better at 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 running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 is a better choice, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour 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 is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.