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GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti comes with a core clock frequency of 1607 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 16 nm design. It is made up of 2432 SPUs, 152 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1670 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 14000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should in theory perform a little bit faster than the Radeon RX 5500 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is much (more or less 66%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 97304 (66%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is superior to the Radeon RX 5500, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 49408 (92%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model	GeForce GTX 1070 Ti	Radeon RX 5500
Manufacturer	nVidia	AMD
Year	November 2017	October 2019
Code Name	GP104-300	Navi 14 XT
Memory	8192 MB	4096 MB
Core Speed	1607 MHz	1670 MHz
Memory Speed	8000 MHz	28000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP)	180 watts	150 watts
Bandwidth	262144 MB/sec	229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate	244264 Mtexels/sec	146960 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	102848 Mpixels/sec	53440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders	2432	1408
Texture Mapping Units	152	88
Render Output Units	64	32
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Bus Width	256-bit	128-bit
Fab Process	16 nm	7 nm
Transistors	7200 million	6400 million
Bus	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version	DirectX 12.0	DirectX 12
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.6	OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels 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 colour ROPs 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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