Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5500, which features GPU core speed of 1670 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5500 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 200576 (696%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 should be quite a bit (about 907%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 132360 (907%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 47600 (815%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.