Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, which has core speeds of 1680 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 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 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (28%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, in theory, should perform just a bit faster than the Geforce GTX 690 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
	Difference: 74240 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition should be just a bit (approximately 15%) better at texture filtering than the Geforce GTX 690. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 34560 (15%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 48960 (84%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses 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 higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip 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 core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.