GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 590, which has core clock speeds of 1469 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 590 should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (33%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 should be much (about 95%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 103104 (95%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is superior to the Radeon RX 590, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25280 (54%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.