GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 590, which makes use of a 12 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1469 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 2000 MHz on this particular card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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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

In theory, the Radeon RX 590 should be 82% faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 should be a lot (approximately 416%) better at 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

The Radeon RX 590 is a lot (approximately 61%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.