GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 1500 MHz on this card. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		120 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should be a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		294912 MB/sec
	Difference: 49152 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is quite a bit (more or less 38%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		144000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 54000 (38%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be a lot (more or less 22%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		72000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16000 (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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.