Geforce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, which has GPU clock speed of 1680 MHz, and 8096 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2560 Stream Processors, 160 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should perform a small bit faster than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		495616 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 36864 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti will be quite a bit (approximately 23%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		331520 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 62720 (23%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is superior to the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		130240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22720 (21%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. 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 bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.