GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1670 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 1408 Stream Processors, 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

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should in theory be quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 5500 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black is much (approximately 45%) more effective at 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%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX Titan Black, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is 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 it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.