Radeon RX 5600 vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 590, which has a core clock frequency of 1469 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 12 nm design. It is comprised of 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon RX 590 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 should be a little bit (approximately 20%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 35536 (20%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is superior to the Radeon RX 590, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40992 (87%)

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 MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

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