GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1670 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon RX 5500 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 106624 (46%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is a little bit (about 20%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29040 (20%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be a lot (more or less 80%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5500, and also able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 42560 (80%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.