GeForce GTX 1630 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 560, which features a clock speed of 1175 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 1024 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1630		75 Watts
Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (7%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 560 should be 17% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1630 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		98304 MB/sec
	Difference: 16384 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be a lot (more or less 35%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1630. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		55680 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19520 (35%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1630 will be a lot (approximately 48%) more effective at AA than the Radeon RX 560, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		27840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9040 (48%)

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 max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.