Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a speed of 1500 MHz on this particular model. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 is 924% quicker than the Radeon R7 240 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is much (about 1105%) faster with regards to anisotropic 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 will be a lot (approximately 1407%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 240, and able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill 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 get to the maximum fill rate.