GeForce GT 220 GDDR3 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which has a core clock frequency of 1717 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It 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)

GeForce GT 220 GDDR3		58 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
	Difference: 72 Watts (124%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5500 XT should in theory be much better than the GeForce GT 220 GDDR3 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GT 220 GDDR3		32384 MB/sec
	Difference: 196992 (608%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT should be quite a bit (about 1411%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 220 GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 220 GDDR3		10000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 141096 (1411%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is much (about 999%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GT 220 GDDR3, and capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 220 GDDR3		5000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 49944 (999%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.