Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1717 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 1408 Stream Processors, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (333%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 5500 XT should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon R7 240 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 200576 (696%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT will be much (more or less 935%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 136496 (935%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT will be quite a bit (about 841%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 240, and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 49104 (841%)

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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.