GeForce GTX Titan X vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which has core clock speeds of 1717 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (92%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX Titan X should be 46% faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		336000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 106624 (46%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan X will be much (approximately 27%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		192000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40904 (27%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan X is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 41056 (75%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per 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 the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.