GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5500, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1670 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1408 Stream Processors, 88 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5500, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 560 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
	Difference: 101248 (79%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is much (about 224%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 101600 (224%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 will be much (about 106%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 560, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27520 (106%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.