Radeon R5 M330 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500, which features a clock frequency of 1670 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It features 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5500 should be a lot faster than the Radeon R5 M330 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 should be a lot (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 AA than the Radeon R5 M330, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling 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 in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.