GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 590, which features core speeds of 1469 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 590 should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 960 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 150144 (134%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 should be a lot (approximately 193%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 139408 (193%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 should be much (more or less 30%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 960, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10944 (30%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant 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.