Radeon Pro Duo vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which features GPU core speed of 1717 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 1408 Stream Processors, 88 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
Radeon Pro Duo		350 Watts
	Difference: 220 Watts (169%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon Pro Duo will be 346% faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		1024000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 794624 (346%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Pro Duo should be quite a bit (more or less 239%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		512000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 360904 (239%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Pro Duo will be a lot (approximately 133%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5500 XT, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		128000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 73056 (133%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.