GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1717 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 1408 Stream Processors, 88 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (8%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5500 XT should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 117376 (105%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is a lot (more or less 109%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 78968 (109%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT should be quite a bit (more or less 52%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 960, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18880 (52%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.