Well, in their charts Guru3d were comparing all the listed cards. Yes, the review was about the 5500 XT but that does not mean that other cards' numbers cannot be used.
Well the polaris cards are outgoing and Navi is incoming ... there has to be some crossover.
I'm not sure what your main disappointment is, a low mid card has to slot into the low mid segment, a 5600xt is incoming so a 5500xt has to sit below that and the 5600xt has to sit below the 5700 non XT.
The fact that AMD still has two outgoing polaris cards in that region should be of no concern, just take a pick for the segment that best suits your needs - NVidia has ~100 skus all a few fps away from each other -- that doesn't seem to be an issue to anyone except Steve Burke and Jayz.
So wanting to give it a lower score because its close to other older cards doesn't seem valid. A 2070 super is ~ 1080ti ... I don't think the 2070 Super should get pooed because of that.
The issue is that the price / performance isn't compelling enough to make a person buy it over NVidia parts with the exact same value. But overall its roughly competitive. 75 is probably about right considering the clearly worse value equal performing 1660 got a 95.
"This reduces the amount of data written out to memory and transferred from memory to the L2 cache and reduces the amount of data transferred between clients (such as the texture unit) and the frame buffer".
That means by reducing the amount of data transfer the effective bandwidth is increased. Let say you compress a 100GB file into a 90GB zip and transfer it over gigabit network, the time to transfer is reduced because the physical size is reduced. But yeah lossless compression does not reduce the physical size that much though.
Also there is a wide difference between 4GB and 8GB model in Gears 5 even at 1080p
So yeah 5500XT 8GB is the model to go for in the near future, yet it is too expensive for what it offers.
"I just didn't agree with all that other unrelated and unimportant rhetorical opinion."
"NVIDIA GPUs utilize several lossless memory compression techniques to reduce memory bandwidth demands as data is written out to frame buffer memory. The GPU’s compression engine has a variety of different algorithms which determine the most efficient way to compress the data based on its characteristics. This reduces the amount of data written out to memory and transferred from memory to the L2 cache and reduces the amount of data transferred between clients (such as the texture unit) and the frame buffer. Turing adds further improvements to Pascal’s state-of-the-art memory compression algorithms, offering a further boost in effective bandwidth beyond the raw data transfer rate increases of GDDR6. As shown in Figure 10, the combination of raw bandwidth increases, and traffic reduction translates to a 50% increase in effective bandwidth on Turing compared to Pascal, which is critical to keep the architecture balanced and support the performance offered by the new Turing SM architecture."
Framebuffer - Wikipedia
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I can't speak for you, so you tell me ... I never had an issue to begin with.
