GeForce GTX 590 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600, which has GPU core speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 215 Watts (143%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 590 is 11% faster than the Radeon RX 5600 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
	Difference: 33408 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be much (approximately 127%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 590. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 98304 (127%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 29728 (51%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result 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 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 figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.