GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1717 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 1408 SPUs, 88 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (8%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5500 XT should be a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT should be much (about 39%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 42664 (39%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is superior to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17344 (32%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that 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 colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.