GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation 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

In theory, the Radeon RX 5600 XT will be 54% quicker than the GeForce GTX 970 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is much (more or less 81%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is a better choice, and very much so. (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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.