Radeon R7 250X vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600, which features core speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory. 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 R7 250X		95 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (58%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 250X overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 222912 (310%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be much (approximately 340%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 250X. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 136000 (340%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is superior to the Radeon R7 250X, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 72000 (450%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out 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 processed in a second.

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