Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which features GPU clock speed of 1717 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 1408 Stream Processors, 88 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5500 XT should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 125376 (121%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is quite a bit (approximately 145%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 89496 (145%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 XT is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 37344 (212%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

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