Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5500, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1670 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (36%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5500 should be 28% quicker than the Radeon R7 370 2G in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 50176 (28%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 should be quite a bit (more or less 136%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 84560 (136%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 will be much (about 71%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22240 (71%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.