GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which features GPU core speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (56%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should theoretically be a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8064 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should be a bit (approximately 13%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22000 (13%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is superior to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8000 (9%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of 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 a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.