Radeon RX 5600 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon VII, which features a core clock speed of 1400 MHz and a HBM2 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also makes use of a 4096-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It features 3840 SPUs, 240 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 145 Watts (97%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon VII should in theory be much faster than the Radeon RX 5600 in general. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
	Difference: 753664 (256%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII is a lot (about 91%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 160000 (91%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon VII is the winner, but only just. (explain)

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1600 (2%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 in a second.

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