GeForce GTX 465 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5500, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1670 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 1408 SPUs along with 88 Texture Address Units 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 465		200 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5500 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 465 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 465		102592 MB/sec
	Difference: 126784 (124%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 should be much (about 450%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 465. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 465		26708 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 120252 (450%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 465		19424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 34016 (175%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.