Radeon RX 5600 XT vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon VII, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1400 MHz. The HBM2 RAM runs at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this specific model. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (84%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon VII should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 5600 XT overall. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 704512 (205%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII should be much (more or less 70%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 5600 XT. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 138000 (70%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon VII is a better choice, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		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 maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated 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 graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.