GeForce GTX Titan 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 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 XT		130 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (92%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX Titan should theoretically be a lot better than the Radeon RX 5500 XT overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 59008 (26%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan is quite a bit (approximately 24%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36392 (24%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT should be quite a bit (more or less 37%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GTX Titan, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14768 (37%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed 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 worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock 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 is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.