GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, 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 specific card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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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

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 970 overall. (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

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is a better choice, by far. (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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling 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 its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number 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 memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.