GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1500 MHz on this card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (56%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 XT, in theory, should perform a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8064 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is a bit (about 13%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22000 (13%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is a small bit (more or less 9%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5600 XT, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8000 (9%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number 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 applied in a second.

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