Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600, which features core clock 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 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 will be 924% faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 266112 (924%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is a lot (more or less 1105%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 161400 (1105%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be a lot (approximately 1407%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 240, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 82160 (1407%)

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 max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher 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 chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.