Radeon RX 5600 vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 580, which has core speeds of 1257 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
Radeon RX 580		185 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (23%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 should in theory be a little bit faster than the Radeon RX 580 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Radeon RX 580		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 580 will be a small bit (more or less 3%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		181008 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5008 (3%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be much (approximately 119%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 580, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 580		40224 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 47776 (119%)

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 transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock 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 also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.