GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which features GPU clock speed of 1717 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 1408 Stream Processors, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (23%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 2060 should be much faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 114688 (50%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 should be a bit (about 8%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12704 (8%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 should be just a bit (about 19%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX 5500 XT, and capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10576 (19%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling 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 that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.