Radeon R9 380 2G vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5700, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1465 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
Radeon R9 380 2G		190 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5700 should perform much faster than the Radeon R9 380 2G in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 276352 (152%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 should be quite a bit (more or less 94%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 380 2G. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		108640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 102320 (94%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 is quite a bit (about 202%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R9 380 2G, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.