GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this particular model. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator 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

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should be a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in general. (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 is a bit (more or less 13%) better at texture filtering 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 running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is superior to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs 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 is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.