Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which has a clock frequency of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1500 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It features 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (23%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 XT, in theory, should be much faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 114688 (50%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is much (approximately 31%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46904 (31%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is superior to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33056 (60%)

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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This 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 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 amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.