Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1605 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5700 XT should perform a small bit faster than the Geforce GTX 690 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		458752 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
	Difference: 74240 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT is a little bit (approximately 10%) more effective at AF than the Geforce GTX 690. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22560 (10%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 44160 (75%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. 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 lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.