GeForce 830M vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which has core speeds of 1717 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. 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 830M		25 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (420%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5500 XT should be 1493% faster than the GeForce 830M in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
GeForce 830M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 214976 (1493%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT will be a lot (more or less 818%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 830M. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 830M		16464 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 134632 (818%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 XT is superior to the GeForce 830M, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 830M		8232 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 46712 (567%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.