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Radeon RX 5600 vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

The Radeon RX 5600 features core speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 580, which has a clock speed of 1257 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is made up of 2304 SPUs, 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

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 5600 should in theory be just a bit better 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 is just a bit (approximately 3%) better at AF 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 is a lot (more or less 119%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 580, and should be capable of handling higher screen 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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon RX 5600 Radeon RX 580
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year January 2020 April 2017
Code Name Navi 10 XE Polaris 20
Memory 6144 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1375 MHz 1257 MHz
Memory Speed 1500 GB/s 8000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 185 watts
Bandwidth 294912 MB/sec 262144 MB/sec
Texel Rate 176000 Mtexels/sec 181008 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 88000 Mpixels/sec 40224 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2048 2304
Texture Mapping Units 128 144
Render Output Units 64 32
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 7 nm 14 nm
Transistors 10300 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 ×16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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