GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1500 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 980		165 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5600 will be 32% faster than the GeForce GTX 980 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 70912 (32%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be a lot (more or less 22%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 980. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 31872 (22%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be quite a bit (more or less 22%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 980, and will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15936 (22%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.