GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (7%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5600 XT is 31% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1070 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 81920 (31%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is just a bit (approximately 10%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1070. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17280 (10%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 is the winner, but not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8384 (10%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated 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 graphics 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 that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.