Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 1500 MHz on this particular model. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (23%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should theoretically be much faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 114688 (50%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is much (more or less 31%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46904 (31%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is superior to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33056 (60%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 in a second.

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