Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1156 MHz, and 8192 MB of HBM2 memory set to run at 1600 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also features 3584 SPUs, 224 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition should be just a bit faster than the Radeon RX Vega 56 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
	Difference: 39322 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition will be a bit (approximately 4%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX Vega 56. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9856 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition is superior to the Radeon RX Vega 56, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33536 (45%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.