Radeon RX 5600 vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 580, which comes with core clock speeds of 1257 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. 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 5600		150 Watts
Radeon RX 580		185 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (23%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5600 should be 13% quicker than the Radeon RX 580 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Radeon RX 580		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 580 should be just a bit (approximately 3%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		181008 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5008 (3%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be much (approximately 119%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon RX 580, and able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 580		40224 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 47776 (119%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of 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 per second.

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