Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5700, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1465 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular card. 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 R7 260X		115 Watts
Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (57%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5700 should be 341% quicker than the Radeon R7 260X in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 354752 (341%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 will be a lot (more or less 242%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 149360 (242%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 will be much (about 433%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 76160 (433%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one 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 - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.