GeForce GTX 590 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a speed of 1500 MHz on this specific card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 215 Watts (143%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 590 should theoretically perform a little bit faster than the Radeon RX 5600 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
	Difference: 33408 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be a lot (about 127%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 590. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 98304 (127%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be much (about 51%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 590, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 29728 (51%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.