GeForce GTX 580 3GB vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which comes with a clock speed of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1500 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is made up of 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
GeForce GTX 580 3GB		244 Watts
	Difference: 84 Watts (53%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 XT will be 79% quicker than the GeForce GTX 580 3GB in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 580 3GB		192384 MB/sec
	Difference: 151680 (79%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be quite a bit (approximately 301%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 580 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580 3GB		49408 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 148592 (301%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be a lot (about 137%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 580 3GB, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 580 3GB		37056 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 50944 (137%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in a 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 - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.