Radeon R7 250 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which comes with clock speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250		65 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (146%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R7 250 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
	Difference: 270464 (367%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should be much (approximately 725%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 174000 (725%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better 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 most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.