Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which comes with core clock speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 480 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 81920 (31%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is a lot (about 23%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should be much (approximately 146%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 480, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high 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 amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.