GeForce RTX 3070 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500, which has a clock frequency of 1670 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is made up of 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070		220 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 5500 should in theory be a small bit better than the GeForce RTX 3070 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 should be quite a bit (approximately 88%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070		276000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 129040 (88%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070		144000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 90560 (169%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.