Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600, which comes with GPU core speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 Stream Processors, 128 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
Geforce GTX 680		195 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5600 should be much faster than the Geforce GTX 680 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 680		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 102656 (53%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be much (about 37%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 680. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 680		128768 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 47232 (37%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is quite a bit (approximately 173%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Geforce GTX 680, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 680		32192 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 55808 (173%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.