GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 590, which features a core clock speed of 1469 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 12 nm design. It is made up of 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 590 should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 560 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
	Difference: 134016 (105%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 will be a lot (approximately 366%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 166176 (366%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 590 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21088 (81%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one 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 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.