Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a speed of 1500 MHz on this particular card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 340 Watts (213%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 295X2, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 5600 XT in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 295936 (86%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be much (about 81%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 5600 XT. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 160336 (81%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 will be a lot (approximately 48%) better at AA than the Radeon RX 5600 XT, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 42304 (48%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. 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 better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on 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 bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.