GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 590, which has a core clock speed of 1469 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 12 nm design. It features 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 115 Watts (66%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should theoretically be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 590 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 360755 (138%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti will be much (approximately 43%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 590. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 90864 (43%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is a lot (more or less 222%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon RX 590, and able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 104192 (222%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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 - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.