Nvidia Titan X vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5700, which comes with core clock speeds of 1465 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (39%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Nvidia Titan X should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 5700 overall. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (7%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X should be a lot (more or less 50%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5700. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 106448 (50%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 42272 (45%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.