Radeon R5 M330 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all 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 as well as 88 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5500 should perform much faster than the Radeon R5 M330 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M330		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 214976 (1493%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 should be quite a bit (more or less 613%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M330. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		20600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 126360 (613%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 will be much (approximately 549%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R5 M330, and should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		8240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 45200 (549%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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