Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5500, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1670 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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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

The Radeon RX 5500 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 will be much (about 136%) more effective at AF 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 is a lot (approximately 71%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the 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 in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.