Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which comes with clock speeds of 1717 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs 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 R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 370 Watts (285%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 295X2 will be 179% faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 410624 (179%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be a lot (approximately 137%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 207240 (137%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be a lot (approximately 137%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon RX 5500 XT, and should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 75360 (137%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling 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 can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.