Radeon HD 5970 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600, which features GPU core 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 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
Radeon HD 5970		294 Watts
	Difference: 144 Watts (96%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600, in theory, should be a bit faster than the Radeon HD 5970 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5970		256000 MB/sec
	Difference: 38912 (15%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5970 will be a lot (more or less 32%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

Radeon HD 5970		232000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56000 (32%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 5970 is a small bit (about 5%) better at FSAA than the Radeon RX 5600, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon HD 5970		92800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4800 (5%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.