Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500, which features a clock speed of 1670 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised 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 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5500 should perform a small bit faster than the Geforce GTX 760 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 37120 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 should be much (more or less 56%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 52880 (56%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 should be quite a bit (approximately 70%) better at FSAA than the Geforce GTX 760, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22080 (70%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at 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 the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.