GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 560, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1175 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 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 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (113%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is 12% quicker than the Radeon RX 560 overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 13568 (12%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 should be quite a bit (more or less 43%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22592 (43%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is quite a bit (more or less 40%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX 560, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7504 (40%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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 potential to reach the max fill rate.