Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which comes with a core clock speed of 1717 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is made up of 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (333%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5500 XT, in theory, should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 200576 (696%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is much (about 935%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 136496 (935%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is much (about 841%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 240, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 49104 (841%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.