GeForce RTX 3070 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which comes with core clock speeds of 1717 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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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

In theory, the Radeon RX 5500 XT should be a little bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 should be much (approximately 83%) more effective at texture filtering 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 using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 is the winner, and very much so. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.