GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2304 Stream Processors, 144 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
GeForce RTX 3090		350 Watts
	Difference: 190 Watts (119%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3090 is 179% faster than the Radeon RX 5600 XT in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		958668 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 614604 (179%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3090 will be quite a bit (approximately 131%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5600 XT. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		457560 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 259560 (131%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3090 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		156240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 68240 (78%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.