Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5700, which features GPU clock speed of 1465 MHz, and 8096 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (125%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5700 will be 300% faster than the Radeon RX 560 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 344064 (300%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 should be a lot (approximately 181%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 135760 (181%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 74960 (399%)

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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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 - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.