Radeon R5 M330 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 550, which features core clock speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 512 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 550 will be 696% faster than the Radeon R5 M330 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M330		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 100288 (696%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 550 will be much (more or less 71%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M330. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		20600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14600 (71%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 550 is superior to the Radeon R5 M330, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		8240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9360 (114%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.