GeForce RTX 3070 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which features a clock speed of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also features a 192-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It features 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070		220 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (38%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should be a small bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3070		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 344064 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 should be much (approximately 39%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5600 XT. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070		276000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 78000 (39%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 is a lot (more or less 64%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5600 XT, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070		144000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 56000 (64%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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