Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5500, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1670 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 1408 SPUs, 88 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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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

The Radeon RX 5500, in theory, should be much faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 will be much (about 907%) faster with regards to AF 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 high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is the winner, by far. (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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.