Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5600, which has a clock speed of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 350 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 295X2 should be 117% faster than the Radeon RX 5600 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
	Difference: 345088 (117%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 will be quite a bit (about 104%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 182336 (104%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 295X2 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 42304 (48%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.