GeForce RTX 3070 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500, which has clock speeds of 1670 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070		220 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 5500 should in theory be a bit superior to the GeForce RTX 3070 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3070		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 229376 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 should be quite a bit (approximately 88%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070		276000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 129040 (88%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 is superior to the Radeon RX 5500, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070		144000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 90560 (169%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.