GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5500, which comes with a core clock speed of 1670 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 1408 SPUs, 88 TAUs, 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 Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 5500 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 106624 (46%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should be quite a bit (more or less 45%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 66400 (45%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 will be a lot (approximately 25%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX Titan Black, and will be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10768 (25%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.