GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500, which comes with GPU core speed of 1670 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 1408 Stream Processors, 88 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		350 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (133%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will be 307% faster than the Radeon RX 5500 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		934297 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 704921 (307%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will be much (more or less 197%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		436800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 289840 (197%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is superior to the Radeon RX 5500, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		152880 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 99440 (186%)

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 within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.