GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this model. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 34 Watts (29%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 196416 (199%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be quite a bit (more or less 511%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 147200 (511%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is a lot (about 307%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 66400 (307%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock 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 output rate also depends 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.