GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which has GPU clock speed of 1717 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1408 Stream Processors, 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 560		150 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5500 XT should in theory be much faster than the GeForce GTX 560 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
	Difference: 101248 (79%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT will be a lot (about 233%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 105736 (233%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 XT is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 29024 (112%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.