GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500, which has GPU core speed of 1670 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (7%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2060 should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 5500 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 114688 (50%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 should be a bit (about 11%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16840 (11%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2060 is superior to the Radeon RX 5500, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12080 (23%)

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 MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on 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 bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.