Radeon RX 460 2GB vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5500, which features clock speeds of 1670 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1408 SPUs along with 88 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5500 should perform much faster than the Radeon RX 460 2GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 117376 (105%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is much (approximately 141%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 85920 (141%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36000 (206%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.