GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500, which comes with a clock speed of 1670 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit 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)

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

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3090 should theoretically be much 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 a lot (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

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3090 is the winner, by a large margin. (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 max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.