GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a speed of 1500 MHz on this card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs 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		165 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should theoretically be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 980 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 120064 (54%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be a lot (more or less 37%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 980. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 53872 (37%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 980, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15936 (22%)

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 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 it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at 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 card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.