GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 560, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1175 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 139 Watts (174%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 570 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the Radeon RX 560 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 37312 (33%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be quite a bit (more or less 71%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 31280 (71%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 will be quite a bit (more or less 56%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 560, and also able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10480 (56%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type 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, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at 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 graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.