Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which features core clock speeds of 1605 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
	Difference: 145 Watts (181%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5700 XT should be 300% quicker than the Radeon RX 560 overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 344064 (300%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT should be much (about 241%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 181600 (241%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT will be quite a bit (about 446%) better at AA than the Radeon RX 560, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 83920 (446%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number 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 graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.