Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 560, which features clock speeds of 1175 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 220 Watts (275%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Geforce GTX 690 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 560 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 269824 (235%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 is a lot (approximately 211%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 560. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 159040 (211%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 will be a lot (about 211%) more effective at AA than the Radeon RX 560, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 39760 (211%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.