GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5700, which has GPU core speed of 1465 MHz, and 8096 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2304 Stream Processors, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
GeForce RTX 3090		350 Watts
	Difference: 170 Watts (94%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 3090 should theoretically be much better than the Radeon RX 5700 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		958668 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 499916 (109%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3090 will be much (approximately 117%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5700. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		457560 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 246600 (117%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA 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 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 62480 (67%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.