Radeon R7 250 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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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

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 250 in general. (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 a lot (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 running with lots of anti-aliasing 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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.