GeForce 9800 GT 1GB vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which comes with GPU 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 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9800 GT 1GB		105 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (52%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should be a lot faster than the GeForce 9800 GT 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce 9800 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 286464 (497%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should be quite a bit (more or less 489%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 9800 GT 1GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9800 GT 1GB		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 164400 (489%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should be much (approximately 817%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9800 GT 1GB, and also able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9800 GT 1GB		9600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 78400 (817%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, 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, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum 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 the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

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