Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5600 will be 40% faster than the Radeon RX 470 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 83712 (40%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is quite a bit (about 48%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 57472 (48%)

Pixel Rate

If running with 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 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 58368 (197%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.