Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 560, which comes with a clock frequency of 1175 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 220 Watts (275%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 690 should in theory be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 560 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 269824 (235%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 will be quite a bit (about 211%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 560. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 159040 (211%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 should be much (approximately 211%) better at AA than the Radeon RX 560, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 39760 (211%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.