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Radeon RX 5600 vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

The Radeon RX 5600 uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this particular model. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 580, which comes with core speeds of 1257 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 580 should be a little bit (more or less 3%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is the winner, by a large margin. (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at 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 the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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