Radeon RX 5600 XT vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which comes with core speeds of 1156 MHz on the GPU, and 1600 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (31%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should be much faster than the Radeon RX 5600 XT in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 75366 (22%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is quite a bit (more or less 31%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5600 XT. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 60944 (31%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is a better choice, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock 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 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.