GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, which has core clock speeds of 1680 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
	Difference: 115 Watts (96%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition is 133% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1060 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 262144 (133%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition will be quite a bit (approximately 123%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 148320 (123%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition is superior to the GeForce GTX 1060, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35232 (49%)

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 transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen 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 amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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 bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.