GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, which has a core clock frequency of 1680 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 2560 SPUs, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (23%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 164147 (36%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should be a little bit (more or less 13%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 33600 (13%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti will be quite a bit (approximately 41%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 43680 (41%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most 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 Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.