GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which comes with core clock speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (7%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 XT is 169% quicker than the GeForce GTX 560 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
	Difference: 215936 (169%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should be much (approximately 337%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 152640 (337%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 560, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 62080 (240%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core 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 one second.

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