Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1717 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 480 should be 14% quicker than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 is a little bit (approximately 7%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10184 (7%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 XT is superior to the Radeon RX 480, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19104 (53%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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