Radeon RX 5600 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which has clock speeds of 1156 MHz on the GPU, and 1600 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (40%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should theoretically be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 5600 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
	Difference: 124518 (42%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be quite a bit (approximately 47%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 82944 (47%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be just a bit (more or less 19%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX Vega 56, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14016 (19%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.