GeForce 8800 GTX vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
GeForce 8800 GTX		155 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (94%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 560, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce 8800 GTX in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GTX		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 28288 (33%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be quite a bit (about 104%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 8800 GTX. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTX		36800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 38400 (104%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 560 is superior to the GeForce 8800 GTX, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTX		13800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5000 (36%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip 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 Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.