GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a speed of 1500 MHz on this card. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 120064 (54%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be quite a bit (more or less 81%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 88800 (81%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be much (about 31%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 970, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20800 (31%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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