GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which comes with 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 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
GeForce RTX 3090		350 Watts
	Difference: 220 Watts (169%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3090 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		958668 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 729292 (318%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3090 is a lot (more or less 203%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		457560 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 306464 (203%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3090 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		156240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 101296 (184%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 number is worked out by multiplying the total number 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core 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 is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.