GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 560, which features a clock frequency of 1175 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It features 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (88%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 560 should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 560 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 13440 (12%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 should be a lot (more or less 66%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29840 (66%)

Pixel Rate

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

GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7120 (38%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.