Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which features core clock speeds of 1717 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 1408 SPUs along with 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 GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 170 Watts (131%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 690 should be 68% quicker than the Radeon RX 5500 XT overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 155136 (68%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 is quite a bit (about 55%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 83144 (55%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 690 is a better choice, though not by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3616 (7%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also 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 of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.