Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare all that 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 RAM. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 170 Watts (131%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 690 should theoretically perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 155136 (68%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 should be quite a bit (more or less 55%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 83144 (55%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 690 is a better choice, though only just barely. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3616 (7%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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