Radeon R7 M260 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which has a clock speed of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1500 MHz. It also features a 192-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is made up of 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 328064 (2050%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should be much (approximately 1054%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 180840 (1054%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be much (more or less 1438%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 M260, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 82280 (1438%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred 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. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.