GeForce RTX 3070 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which features a clock frequency of 1717 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is made up of 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070		220 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (69%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5500 XT is -100% quicker than the GeForce RTX 3070 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3070		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 229376 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 will be a lot (about 83%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070		276000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 124904 (83%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 is superior to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070		144000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 89056 (162%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the 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 - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.