GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which comes with core clock speeds of 1717 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory. 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 GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (38%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should theoretically be a small bit faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be much (about 62%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 93168 (62%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is superior to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 47904 (87%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.