Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which has core speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator 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

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should in theory be quite a bit better 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 should be a lot (more or less 31%) more effective at AF 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 running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is the winner, and very much so. (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.