GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 1500 MHz on this specific card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1080 should in theory perform a little bit faster than the Radeon RX 5600 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 will be quite a bit (approximately 46%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 81120 (46%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 should be a bit (approximately 17%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5600, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14848 (17%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.