Radeon RX 5700 vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 590, which makes use of a 12 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1469 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 2000 MHz on this specific model. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5700 should be 75% quicker than the Radeon RX 590 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 196608 (75%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 is a small bit (approximately 0%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 5700. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 576 (0%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 is superior to the Radeon RX 590, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 46752 (99%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a 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 clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.