GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 590, which comes with clock speeds of 1469 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 115 Watts (66%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon RX 590 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 360755 (138%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should be quite a bit (more or less 43%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 590. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 90864 (43%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is much (more or less 222%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon RX 590, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 104192 (222%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.