GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5700, which has clock speeds of 1465 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (39%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5700 should theoretically be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
	Difference: 122752 (37%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 is a bit (approximately 20%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 34960 (20%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be a small bit (about 2%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5700, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2240 (2%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.