Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500, which comes with core clock speeds of 1670 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1408 SPUs along with 88 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5500 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 460 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 117376 (105%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is much (about 141%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 460. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 85920 (141%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 should be quite a bit (about 206%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon RX 460, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36000 (206%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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 lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.