GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600, which has a core clock frequency of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600, in theory, should be a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (13%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 will be just a bit (approximately 3%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4720 (3%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 is the winner, but only just. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8384 (10%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units 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 number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.