GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 560, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1175 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1024 Stream Processors, 64 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (88%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 560 should be just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 560 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 13440 (12%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 is much (about 66%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29840 (66%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 is superior to the Radeon RX 560, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7120 (38%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.