Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which has a clock frequency of 1717 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It features 1408 SPUs, 88 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 370 Watts (285%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 295X2 is 179% faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 410624 (179%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be quite a bit (approximately 137%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 207240 (137%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 295X2 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 75360 (137%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, 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 is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core 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 number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.