GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5700, which comes with core clock speeds of 1465 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5700, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 560 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
	Difference: 330624 (258%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 will be a lot (approximately 365%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 165600 (365%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 is superior to the GeForce GTX 560, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 67840 (262%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.