Radeon HD 5550 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 560, which comes with core clock speeds of 1175 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 560 should be much faster than the Radeon HD 5550 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5550		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 101888 (796%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be much (more or less 755%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 5550. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5550		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 66400 (755%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 560 is superior to the Radeon HD 5550, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5550		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14400 (327%)

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 transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.