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GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1060 comes with a core clock speed of 1506 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 16 nm design. It features 1280 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 570, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1168 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 32 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1060		311 Sol/s
Radeon RX 570		298 Sol/s
	Difference: 13 (4%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		600 h/s
GeForce GTX 1060		430 h/s
	Difference: 170 (40%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Radeon RX 570		12108 points
	Difference: 251 (2%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 570 should theoretically be a small bit superior to the GeForce GTX 1060 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 should be quite a bit (about 24%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29024 (24%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be much (more or less 93%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 570, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 34912 (93%)

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

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Model	GeForce GTX 1060	Radeon RX 570
Manufacturer	nVidia	AMD
Year	July 2016	April 2017
Code Name	GP106-400	Polaris 20
Memory	6144 MB	4096 MB
Core Speed	1506 MHz	1168 MHz
Memory Speed	8000 MHz	7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP)	120 watts	150 watts
Bandwidth	196608 MB/sec	229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate	120480 Mtexels/sec	149504 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	72288 Mpixels/sec	37376 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders	1280	2048
Texture Mapping Units	80	128
Render Output Units	48	32
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Bus Width	192-bit	256-bit
Fab Process	16 nm	14 nm
Transistors	4400 million	5700 million
Bus	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version	DirectX 12.0	DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.5	OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once 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 AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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