Radeon R7 260X vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1717 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this 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 R7 260X		115 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5500 XT should in theory be much better than the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 125376 (121%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT should be much (more or less 145%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 89496 (145%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT should be quite a bit (about 212%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 37344 (212%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 applied 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. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output 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.