GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5600, which has core clock speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1080 should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon RX 5600 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is much (about 46%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 81120 (46%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is just a bit (approximately 17%) better at AA than the Radeon RX 5600, and capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14848 (17%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.