Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600, which uses 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 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 should perform much faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (29%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is a little bit (approximately 16%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24904 (16%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past 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 type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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