GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5700, which has clock speeds of 1465 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
GeForce GTX 480		250 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (39%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5700 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 480 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 480		177408 MB/sec
	Difference: 281344 (159%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 should be quite a bit (approximately 402%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 480. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		42000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 168960 (402%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 should be much (approximately 179%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 480, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		33600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60160 (179%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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 memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.