GeForce GTX 590 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this specific card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 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 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 215 Watts (143%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 590 should be 11% faster than the Radeon RX 5600 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is a lot (about 127%) better at anisotropic 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 should be a lot (approximately 51%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 590, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes 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 speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.