GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1670 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this model. 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 480		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5500 is 29% quicker than the GeForce GTX 480 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 480		177408 MB/sec
	Difference: 51968 (29%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is a lot (more or less 250%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 480. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		42000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 104960 (250%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is much (approximately 59%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 480, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		33600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19840 (59%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.