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GeForce GTX 580 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

The GeForce GTX 580 comes with a GPU clock speed of 772 MHz, and the 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 1002 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 512 Stream Processors, 64 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5500, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1670 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a frequency of 14000 MHz on this particular card. It features 1408 SPUs along with 88 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 580		244 Watts
	Difference: 94 Watts (63%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5500 should in theory be a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 580 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 580		192384 MB/sec
	Difference: 36992 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is a lot (about 197%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 580. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		49408 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 97552 (197%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 should be a lot (approximately 44%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 580, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		37056 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16384 (44%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model	GeForce GTX 580	Radeon RX 5500
Manufacturer	nVidia	AMD
Year	November 2010	October 2019
Code Name	GF110	Navi 14 XT
Memory	1536 MB	4096 MB
Core Speed	772 MHz	1670 MHz
Memory Speed	4008 MHz	28000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP)	244 watts	150 watts
Bandwidth	192384 MB/sec	229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate	49408 Mtexels/sec	146960 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	37056 Mpixels/sec	53440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders	512	1408
Texture Mapping Units	64	88
Render Output Units	48	32
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Bus Width	384-bit	128-bit
Fab Process	40 nm	7 nm
Transistors	3000 million	6400 million
Bus	PCIe x16	PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version	DirectX 11	DirectX 12
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.1	OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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