GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5500, which has core speeds of 1670 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory. 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 Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX Titan should theoretically be a lot better than the Radeon RX 5500 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 59008 (26%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan will be quite a bit (about 28%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40528 (28%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13264 (33%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.