Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (119%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 590 should in theory be a lot superior to the Radeon RX 560 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 147456 (129%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 is quite a bit (more or less 181%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 136336 (181%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 590 is superior to the Radeon RX 560, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 28208 (150%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.