GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1680 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
	Difference: 16 Watts (7%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition should in theory be much superior to the GeForce GTX 570 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
	Difference: 306752 (202%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition should be a lot (more or less 512%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 224880 (512%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition is quite a bit (approximately 267%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 570, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 78240 (267%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.