GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 570, which has GPU core speed of 1168 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 Stream Processors, 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 will be 17% faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 will be a lot (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

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is the winner, by a large margin. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.