Radeon RX 5600 XT vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 590, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1469 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2304 Stream Processors, 144 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon RX 590 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 81920 (31%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 is a little bit (about 7%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5600 XT. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13536 (7%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40992 (87%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster 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 are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

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