Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600, which features clock speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
Radeon R9 290		300 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 290 should be just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 5600 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 290		320000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
	Difference: 25088 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is quite a bit (approximately 38%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 290. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290		128000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 48000 (38%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be much (about 72%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 290, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290		51200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36800 (72%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.