GeForce RTX 3070 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070		220 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (38%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 XT will be -100% faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3070		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 344064 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 is a lot (about 39%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5600 XT. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070		276000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 78000 (39%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070		144000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 56000 (64%)

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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen 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 of the card by the core clock 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write 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 core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.