GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 590, which makes use of a 12 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1469 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this particular model. 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 560 Ti		170 Watts
Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 590, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 133888 (104%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 is quite a bit (approximately 302%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 158928 (302%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 590 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20704 (79%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.