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GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

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The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a GPU core speed of 1506 MHz, and the 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory is set to run at 2000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 1152 Stream Processors, 72 TAUs, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1717 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 1408 SPUs along with 88 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (8%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5500 XT should perform a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT will be a lot (about 39%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 42664 (39%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is superior to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17344 (32%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model	GeForce GTX 1060 3GB	Radeon RX 5500 XT
Manufacturer	nVidia	AMD
Year	August 2016	December 2019
Code Name	GP106-300	Navi 14 XTX
Memory	3072 MB	8192 MB
Core Speed	1506 MHz	1717 MHz
Memory Speed	8000 MHz	3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP)	120 watts	130 watts
Bandwidth	196608 MB/sec	229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate	108432 Mtexels/sec	151096 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	72288 Mpixels/sec	54944 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders	1152	1408
Texture Mapping Units	72	88
Render Output Units	48	32
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Bus Width	192-bit	128-bit
Fab Process	16 nm	7 nm
Transistors	4400 million	6400 million
Bus	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version	DirectX 12.0	DirectX 12
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.5	OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

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

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