GeForce 8800 GS vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500, which comes with clock 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 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 8800 GS		105 Watts
Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5500, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce 8800 GS in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 190976 (497%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 will be a lot (approximately 457%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 8800 GS. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GS		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 120560 (457%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution 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 8800 GS		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 46840 (710%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.