Radeon R7 250X vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600, which has GPU clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250X		95 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (58%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 250X in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 222912 (310%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be a lot (more or less 340%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 250X. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 136000 (340%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be much (more or less 450%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 250X, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 72000 (450%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.