Radeon HD 5570 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 560, which comes with clock speeds of 1175 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5570		43 Watts
Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
	Difference: 37 Watts (86%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 560 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 5570 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5570		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 85888 (298%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 is quite a bit (about 478%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 5570. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5570		13000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 62200 (478%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 560 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5570		5200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13600 (262%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out 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 handling 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 card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.