GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600, which comes with GPU core speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 Stream Processors, 128 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 should in theory perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 970 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 70912 (32%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is much (about 61%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 66800 (61%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is superior to the GeForce GTX 970, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20800 (31%)

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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount 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 most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.