GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare 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 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 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (65%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5500 XT should perform 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 (about 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 high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 XT is a better choice, by far. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.