GeForce GTX 590 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 205 Watts (128%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should in theory be a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 590 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
	Difference: 15744 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should be a lot (about 155%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 590. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 120304 (155%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 590, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.