GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600, in theory, should be just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (13%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 will be a small bit (more or less 3%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4720 (3%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 will be a bit (about 10%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5600, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8384 (10%)

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 MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.