GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon HD 5830

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 5830, which comes with GPU clock speed of 800 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1120(224x5) Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon HD 5830		175 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1060 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the Radeon HD 5830 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5830		128000 MB/sec
	Difference: 68608 (54%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be a lot (approximately 169%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 5830. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5830		44800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 75680 (169%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is superior to the Radeon HD 5830, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5830		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 59488 (465%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied 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 better the texel rate, the better the 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.