Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which has a clock frequency of 1717 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It features 1408 SPUs, 88 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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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

The Geforce GTX 690 should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 will be a lot (about 55%) better at 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

The Geforce GTX 690 should be a small bit (about 7%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5500 XT, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.