GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon HD 7790

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 7790, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this specific model. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Radeon HD 7790		4330 points
	Difference: 8029 (185%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7790		85 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (41%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1060, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon HD 7790 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7790		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 100608 (105%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be quite a bit (approximately 115%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 7790. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7790		56000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 64480 (115%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7790		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 56288 (352%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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 can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.