GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which features clock speeds of 1717 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory. 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)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (38%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should in theory be a little bit better than the Radeon RX 5500 XT overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be a lot (approximately 62%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 93168 (62%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be a lot (approximately 87%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5500 XT, and will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 47904 (87%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.