Radeon RX 5700 XT vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 590, which has clock speeds of 1469 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (29%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5700 XT should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 590 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 196608 (75%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT is a lot (about 21%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 590. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 45264 (21%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 55712 (119%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better 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 a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.