GeForce GT 440 1.5GB vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1717 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. 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)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		56 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
	Difference: 74 Watts (132%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5500 XT is 431% quicker than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		43200 MB/sec
	Difference: 186176 (431%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT should be quite a bit (approximately 960%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 136840 (960%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is a lot (more or less 285%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40688 (285%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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