Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which comes with a clock frequency of 1717 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It 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 370 2G		110 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5500 XT should theoretically perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 50176 (28%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT will be much (more or less 142%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 88696 (142%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT should be much (approximately 76%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23744 (76%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.