Radeon HD 5570 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5500, which features GPU clock speed of 1670 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 1408 Stream Processors, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5570		43 Watts
Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
	Difference: 107 Watts (249%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 5500 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon HD 5570 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5570		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 200576 (696%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 will be a lot (more or less 1030%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 5570. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5570		13000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 133960 (1030%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is superior to the Radeon HD 5570, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5570		5200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 48240 (928%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher 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 most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs 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 output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.