Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which has core speeds of 1605 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5700 XT should theoretically be just a bit superior to the Geforce GTX 690 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		458752 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
	Difference: 74240 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT will be just a bit (approximately 10%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 690. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22560 (10%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT is superior to the Geforce GTX 690, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 44160 (75%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.