GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5500, which features core speeds of 1670 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 650		64 Watts
Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
	Difference: 86 Watts (134%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5500 should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce GTX 650 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650		80000 MB/sec
	Difference: 149376 (187%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 should be a lot (about 334%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 650. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 650		33856 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 113104 (334%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is superior to the GeForce GTX 650, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650		16928 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36512 (216%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.