GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 590, which has a core clock frequency of 1469 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 12 nm design. It is comprised of 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 590 should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (33%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 should be a lot (about 76%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 91056 (76%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is quite a bit (more or less 54%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 590, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25280 (54%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.