Radeon R9 380 2G vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5600, which comes with core clock speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
Radeon R9 380 2G		190 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (27%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 is 62% faster than the Radeon R9 380 2G overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 112512 (62%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be much (more or less 62%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 380 2G. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		108640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 67360 (62%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 56960 (184%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.