GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon HD 6790

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6790, which has GPU clock speed of 840 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1050 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 800 Stream Processors, 40 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 6790		2150 points
	Difference: 10209 (475%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon HD 6790		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1060 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon HD 6790 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6790		134400 MB/sec
	Difference: 62208 (46%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is much (more or less 259%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 6790. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6790		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 86880 (259%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be much (about 438%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon HD 6790, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6790		13440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 58848 (438%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.