Radeon R9 380 2G vs Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1680 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 380 2G		190 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (24%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition should be a lot faster than the Radeon R9 380 2G in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 276352 (152%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition will be much (approximately 147%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 380 2G. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		108640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 160160 (147%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition should be much (approximately 246%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 380 2G, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 76480 (246%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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 higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at 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 per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.