Nvidia Titan X vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5500, which features core clock speeds of 1670 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Nvidia Titan X will be 114% faster than the Radeon RX 5500 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 262144 (114%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X should be quite a bit (approximately 116%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 170448 (116%)

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X will be quite a bit (more or less 155%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5500, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 82592 (155%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on 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 max fill rate.