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Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

The Geforce GTX 670 has core speeds of 915 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1344 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1717 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT 130 Watts
Geforce GTX 670 170 Watts
Difference: 40 Watts (31%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5500 XT should be 19% quicker than the Geforce GTX 670 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT 229376 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 670 192000 MB/sec
Difference: 37376 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT should be quite a bit (more or less 47%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 670. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT 151096 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 670 102480 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 48616 (47%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 XT is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT 54944 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 670 29280 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 25664 (88%)

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

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Specifications

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Model Geforce GTX 670 Radeon RX 5500 XT
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 2012 December 2019
Code Name GK104 Navi 14 XTX
Memory 2048 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 915 MHz 1717 MHz
Memory Speed 6000 MHz 3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 170 watts 130 watts
Bandwidth 192000 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 102480 Mtexels/sec 151096 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29280 Mpixels/sec 54944 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1344 1408
Texture Mapping Units 112 88
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 3540 million 6400 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.2 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip 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 amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Geforce GTX 670

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Radeon RX 5500 XT

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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