Radeon R9 380X vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5700, which features core clock speeds of 1465 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
Radeon R9 380X		190 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5700 should be much faster than the Radeon R9 380X in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380X		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 276352 (152%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 is much (approximately 70%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 380X. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 86800 (70%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 should be a lot (about 202%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R9 380X, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 62720 (202%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.