GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare those specifications 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 makes use of a 128-bit bus, and uses 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		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX Titan should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon RX 5500 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 59008 (26%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan should be quite a bit (approximately 28%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40528 (28%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is a lot (more or less 33%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX Titan, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13264 (33%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.