GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5700, which features clock speeds of 1465 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5700 should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 262144 (133%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 is quite a bit (about 75%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 90480 (75%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 will be quite a bit (more or less 30%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 1060, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21472 (30%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of 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.