GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which features core speeds of 1605 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (88%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5700 XT is 133% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1060 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 262144 (133%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT is a lot (about 113%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 136320 (113%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT will be quite a bit (about 42%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1060, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30432 (42%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.