GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which comes with clock 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 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
GeForce GTX 480		250 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (11%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5700 XT, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 480 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT is quite a bit (more or less 511%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 480. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		42000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 214800 (511%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT is a lot (about 206%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 480, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		33600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 69120 (206%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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 potential to reach the max fill rate.