Geforce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which features core speeds of 1605 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (11%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should be a small bit faster than the Radeon RX 5700 XT in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		495616 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 36864 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is a lot (more or less 29%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5700 XT. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		331520 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 74720 (29%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is superior to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, and very much so. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		130240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27520 (27%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at 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 record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.