Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5500, which features a clock speed of 1670 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It features 1408 SPUs, 88 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 690, in theory, should be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 5500 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 155136 (68%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 will be a lot (approximately 59%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 87280 (59%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 will be a small bit (more or less 10%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5500, and able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5120 (10%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip 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 number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.