Radeon R9 M370X vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5500, which comes with 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 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5500 should in theory be much better than the Radeon R9 M370X overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 157376 (219%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 should be quite a bit (more or less 359%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 114960 (359%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 should be a lot (approximately 318%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M370X, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40640 (318%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.