GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which features GPU core speed of 1717 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (65%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5500 XT, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 470 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
	Difference: 95456 (71%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is quite a bit (more or less 345%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 117104 (345%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 XT is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30664 (126%)

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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock 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 quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.