GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon HD 5830

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 5830, which has GPU clock speed of 800 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1120(224x5) Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon HD 5830		175 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1060 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon HD 5830 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5830		128000 MB/sec
	Difference: 68608 (54%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is much (more or less 169%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 5830. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5830		44800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 75680 (169%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be much (about 465%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 5830, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5830		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 59488 (465%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes 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 the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.