GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 570, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1168 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		298 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		290 Sol/s
	Difference: 8 (3%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		26 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		19 Mh/s
	Difference: 7 (37%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		12185 points
Radeon RX 570		12108 points
	Difference: 77 (1%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 570 should perform just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is quite a bit (more or less 38%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 41072 (38%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB will be quite a bit (about 93%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon RX 570, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 34912 (93%)

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

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher 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 most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.