GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5500, which features GPU core speed of 1670 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 1408 Stream Processors, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1080 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 5500 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 98304 (43%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 will be much (approximately 75%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 110160 (75%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1080 is superior to the Radeon RX 5500, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 49408 (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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at 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 the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.