Radeon R7 250 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250		65 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (131%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 will be 301% quicker than the Radeon R7 250 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
	Difference: 221312 (301%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be a lot (about 633%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 152000 (633%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be a lot (approximately 1000%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 250, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 80000 (1000%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.