GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5600, which has a core clock speed of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 5600 should in theory be much better than the GeForce GTX 1060 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 98304 (50%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be quite a bit (more or less 46%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 55520 (46%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15712 (22%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If 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 higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.