GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600, which comes with core clock speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 3090		350 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (133%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3090 will be 225% faster than the Radeon RX 5600 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		958668 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
	Difference: 663756 (225%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3090 will be quite a bit (about 160%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		457560 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 281560 (160%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3090 should be a lot (about 78%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon RX 5600, and should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		156240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied 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 the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could 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 Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.