Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1670 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 1408 Stream Processors, 88 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 690 should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 5500 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 155136 (68%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 should be quite a bit (more or less 59%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 87280 (59%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 690 is a better choice, though not by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5120 (10%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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 many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.