Radeon R9 M370X vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5500 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R9 M370X overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 157376 (219%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 should be much (approximately 359%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 114960 (359%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40640 (318%)

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 transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.