GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5500, which features a clock frequency of 1670 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It features 1408 SPUs, 88 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		350 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (133%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 5500 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		934297 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 704921 (307%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is much (approximately 197%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		436800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 289840 (197%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		152880 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 99440 (186%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.