Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon VII, which has GPU core speed of 1400 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 memory set to run at 1000 MHz through a 4096-bit bus. It also is made up of 3840 Stream Processors, 240 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 145 Watts (97%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon VII is 357% faster than the Radeon RX 5500 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 819200 (357%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII is a lot (approximately 129%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 189040 (129%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon VII will be quite a bit (approximately 68%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5500, and capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36160 (68%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at 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 card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.