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GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has core speeds of 1506 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 72 Texture Address Units and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1717 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a speed of 14000 MHz on this particular card. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs 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

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5500 XT should in theory be just a bit superior to 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 is a lot (approximately 39%) better at texture filtering 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

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB should be a lot (more or less 32%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5500 XT, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (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	28000 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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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