GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon R9 M295X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M295X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 750 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1375 MHz on this particular model. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
Radeon R9 M295X		125 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (4%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB should perform a small bit faster than the Radeon R9 M295X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M295X		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 20608 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB should be a small bit (more or less 13%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 M295X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M295X		96000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12432 (13%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB should be much (about 201%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M295X, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M295X		24000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 48288 (201%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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