GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5500, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1670 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 1408 Stream Processors, 88 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 3090		350 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (133%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3090 should be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 5500 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		958668 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 729292 (318%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3090 should be quite a bit (approximately 211%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		457560 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 310600 (211%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3090 should be much (about 192%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon RX 5500, and able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		156240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 102800 (192%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.