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GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1060 comes with a core clock frequency of 1506 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also features a 192-bit bus, and uses a 16 nm design. It is made up of 1280 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1717 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 1408 SPUs along with 88 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 120 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 XT 130 Watts
Difference: 10 Watts (8%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5500 XT should in theory be a small bit better than the GeForce GTX 1060 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT 229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 196608 MB/sec
Difference: 32768 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT will be quite a bit (approximately 25%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT 151096 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 120480 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 30616 (25%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is a lot (approximately 32%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5500 XT, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT 54944 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 17344 (32%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1060 Radeon RX 5500 XT
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2016 December 2019
Code Name GP106-400 Navi 14 XTX
Memory 6144 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1506 MHz 1717 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 130 watts
Bandwidth 196608 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 120480 Mtexels/sec 151096 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 72288 Mpixels/sec 54944 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1280 1408
Texture Mapping Units 80 88
Render Output Units 48 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 192-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 7 nm
Transistors 4400 million 6400 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1060

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Radeon RX 5500 XT

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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