Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5500, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1670 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 1408 SPUs along with 88 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 R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 350 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 295X2 is 179% quicker than the Radeon RX 5500 overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 410624 (179%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 will be quite a bit (about 144%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 211376 (144%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 is quite a bit (about 144%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon RX 5500, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 76864 (144%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.