GeForce GTX 465 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which has 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 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 465		200 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5700 XT should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 465 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 465		102592 MB/sec
	Difference: 356160 (347%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT should be much (about 862%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 465. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 465		26708 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 230092 (862%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 465, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 465		19424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 83296 (429%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus 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 higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.