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Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

The Radeon RX 5500 has core speeds of 1670 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 1408 SPUs along with 88 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 590, which uses a 12 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1469 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 2000 MHz on this specific card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 150 Watts
Radeon RX 590 175 Watts
Difference: 25 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 590 should in theory be a small bit faster than the Radeon RX 5500 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 590 262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 229376 MB/sec
Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 is much (approximately 44%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

Radeon RX 590 211536 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 146960 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 64576 (44%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is a little bit (approximately 14%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 590, and will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 53440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590 47008 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6432 (14%)

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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon RX 5500 Radeon RX 590
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 2019 November 2018
Code Name Navi 14 XT Polaris 30
Memory 4096 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1670 MHz 1469 MHz
Memory Speed 1750 GB/s 8000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 175 watts
Bandwidth 229376 MB/sec 262144 MB/sec
Texel Rate 146960 Mtexels/sec 211536 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 53440 Mpixels/sec 47008 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1408 2304
Texture Mapping Units 88 144
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 7 nm 12 nm
Transistors 6400 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 ×16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of 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 better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon RX 590

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