GeForce GTX 590 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which features a core clock speed of 2200 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2250 MHz. It also makes use of a 64-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 6 nm design. It features 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		107 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 258 Watts (241%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 590 should in theory perform much faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
	Difference: 180864 (123%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT should be quite a bit (more or less 81%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 590. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 63104 (81%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6500 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 590, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12128 (21%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 per second.

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