Radeon R9 380 2G vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a speed of 1500 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
Radeon R9 380 2G		190 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (27%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5600 should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 380 2G overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 112512 (62%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be much (approximately 62%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 380 2G. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		108640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 67360 (62%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is much (more or less 184%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 380 2G, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 2G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 56960 (184%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.