GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which features a clock speed of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is a lot (approximately 64%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 77520 (64%)

Pixel Rate

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

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range 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 figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.