GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which has core speeds of 1605 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (11%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5700 XT should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT should be a lot (about 46%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 80800 (46%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT is a better choice, but not by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6720 (7%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.