GeForce RTX 2070 Super vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5500, which has GPU clock speed of 1670 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 1408 SPUs, 88 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 2070 Super		215 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2070 Super should theoretically be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 5500 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070 Super		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 229376 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 Super will be quite a bit (approximately 75%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070 Super		256800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 109840 (75%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 Super is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070 Super		102720 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 49280 (92%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.