GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which features clock speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 147456 (75%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be quite a bit (more or less 83%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 89568 (83%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is much (approximately 22%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15712 (22%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.