Radeon HD 3470 512MB vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which comes with core speeds of 1605 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5700 XT should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon HD 3470 512MB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		458752 MB/sec
Radeon HD 3470 512MB		30400 MB/sec
	Difference: 428352 (1409%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT is quite a bit (more or less 7925%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 3470 512MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3470 512MB		3200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 253600 (7925%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT is superior to the Radeon HD 3470 512MB, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 3470 512MB		3200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 99520 (3110%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, 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 texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the 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 core 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.