Radeon Pro Duo vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5500, which has clock speeds of 1670 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
Radeon Pro Duo		350 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (133%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon Pro Duo should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon RX 5500 in general. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		1024000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 794624 (346%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Pro Duo will be much (more or less 248%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		512000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 365040 (248%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon Pro Duo is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		128000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 74560 (140%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated 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 output 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 potential to get to the maximum fill rate.