GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 560, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1175 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (113%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 560 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 13568 (12%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 is quite a bit (more or less 43%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22592 (43%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti will be much (about 40%) more effective at AA than the Radeon RX 560, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7504 (40%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.