Radeon RX 480 4GB vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which comes with clock speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		150 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (7%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should be 50% quicker than the Radeon RX 480 4GB in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 114688 (50%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is much (about 23%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 480 4GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36720 (23%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is superior to the Radeon RX 480 4GB, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 52160 (146%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 one second.

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