Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1717 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this model. 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 670		170 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (31%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5500 XT, in theory, should perform just a bit faster than the Geforce GTX 670 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 670		192000 MB/sec
	Difference: 37376 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is much (about 47%) faster with regards to AF than the Geforce GTX 670. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 670		102480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 48616 (47%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is quite a bit (approximately 88%) more effective at FSAA than the Geforce GTX 670, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 670		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25664 (88%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.