GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which features clock speeds of 1717 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1408 SPUs along with 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 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 160 Watts (123%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is 172% quicker than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 393523 (172%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is quite a bit (approximately 100%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 151304 (100%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is superior to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 96256 (175%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.