Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5600, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5600 should be a small bit faster than the Radeon RX 480 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be just a bit (about 9%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14720 (9%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be quite a bit (more or less 146%) better at FSAA than the Radeon RX 480, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 52160 (146%)

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 max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.