GeForce GTX 590 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 560, which comes with GPU core speed of 1175 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also 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 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 285 Watts (356%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 590 should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon RX 560 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 213632 (186%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 590 will be just a bit (about 3%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 560. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2496 (3%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 590 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 39472 (210%)

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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.