GeForce 9800 GTX+ vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which comes with 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 is comprised of 2304 Stream Processors, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9800 GTX+		145 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should be much faster than the GeForce 9800 GTX+ overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX+		70400 MB/sec
	Difference: 273664 (389%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is a lot (approximately 319%) better at AF than the GeForce 9800 GTX+. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX+		47232 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 150768 (319%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is much (about 645%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9800 GTX+, and should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX+		11808 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 76192 (645%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.