Radeon HD 7950 3GB vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
Radeon HD 7950 3GB		200 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5600 should in theory be much superior to the Radeon HD 7950 3GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7950 3GB		240000 MB/sec
	Difference: 54912 (23%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be a lot (more or less 96%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7950 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7950 3GB		89600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 86400 (96%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be much (more or less 244%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon HD 7950 3GB, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7950 3GB		25600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 62400 (244%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.