Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600, which has core clock speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5600 should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon RX 480 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be a small bit (approximately 9%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14720 (9%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is a lot (more or less 146%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 480, and should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 52160 (146%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs 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 also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.