GeForce RTX 4070 Ti vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which features core speeds of 1717 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		285 Watts
	Difference: 155 Watts (119%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti should be 125% faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		516096 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 286720 (125%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti should be a lot (more or less 267%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		554400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 403304 (267%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti should be quite a bit (about 236%) more effective at AA than the Radeon RX 5500 XT, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		184800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 129856 (236%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip 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 ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.