Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which has core speeds of 1717 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 480 should theoretically be a bit superior to the Radeon RX 5500 XT in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 is a little bit (more or less 7%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10184 (7%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 XT is superior to the Radeon RX 480, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19104 (53%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 the video card could possibly record 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 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 fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.