Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500, which has GPU core speed of 1670 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1408 Stream Processors, 88 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5500 is 696% quicker than the Radeon R7 240 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 200576 (696%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is much (approximately 907%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 132360 (907%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is superior to the Radeon R7 240, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 47600 (815%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.