Radeon RX 5600 vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 590, which has a clock frequency of 1469 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 12 nm design. It features 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600, in theory, should be a little bit faster than the Radeon RX 590 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 is just a bit (approximately 20%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 35536 (20%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is superior to the Radeon RX 590, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40992 (87%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of 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 handling 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 card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.