Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500, which features 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 features 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 240		30 Watts
Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 5500 should in theory be quite a bit superior to 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 quite a bit (about 907%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is a lot (about 815%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 240, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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