GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which features GPU core speed of 1605 MHz, and 8096 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2560 Stream Processors, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5700 XT should theoretically be much faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 196608 (75%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT will be quite a bit (about 42%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1070. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 76080 (42%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT will be a small bit (about 7%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GTX 1070, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6336 (7%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.