GeForce RTX 3070 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5500, which features a clock speed of 1670 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of 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

The Radeon RX 5500 should in theory perform a little bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 will be a lot (approximately 88%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 will be quite a bit (about 169%) better at FSAA than the Radeon RX 5500, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units 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 a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.