Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 2304 Stream Processors, 144 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (39%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 240064 (231%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should be much (more or less 221%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 136400 (221%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is much (more or less 400%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 70400 (400%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of 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 rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.