Radeon R9 M370X vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1670 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 1408 SPUs along with 88 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 5500 should in theory be much superior to the Radeon R9 M370X in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 will be much (more or less 359%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 M370X. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is superior to the Radeon R9 M370X, 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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.