GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 560, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1175 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 1024 Stream Processors, 64 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (81%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 970 should in theory be much better than the Radeon RX 560 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 109312 (95%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 should be quite a bit (about 45%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 560. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 34000 (45%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970 is superior to the Radeon RX 560, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 48400 (257%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. 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.