Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 590, which makes use of a 12 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1469 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this particular card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 590 should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 5500 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 will be quite a bit (more or less 44%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 64576 (44%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is the winner, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6432 (14%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core 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 also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.