Radeon R9 290X vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this model. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs 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 290X		300 Watts
	Difference: 140 Watts (88%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon R9 290X in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
Radeon R9 290X		320000 MB/sec
	Difference: 24064 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should be much (about 41%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 290X. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 57200 (41%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be quite a bit (about 72%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R9 290X, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290X		51200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36800 (72%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock 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 fill rate is also dependant 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 max fill rate.