GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 590, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1469 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2304 Stream Processors, 144 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		210 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 590 should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		144000 MB/sec
	Difference: 118144 (82%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 is much (more or less 416%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		40992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 170544 (416%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 590 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17728 (61%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.