Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 590, which comes with clock speeds of 1469 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 590 should in theory be a lot superior to the Geforce GTX 760 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 69888 (36%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 should be much (about 125%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 760. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 117456 (125%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 590 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15648 (50%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.