AMD Radeon RX 570 vs Palit GeForce GTX 1060 JetStream (NE51060015J9-1060J)

The GeForce GTX 1060 JetStream has many more ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines) than the Radeon RX 570 GPU. Furthermore, its graphics clock rate is higher, consequently it has much higher pixel fillrate. Having better pixel fillrate allows the card to draw more pixels on screen and off screen, which is beneficial for some 3D effects in games, or when playing at higher display resolutions.

Although its graphics frequency is lower, the AMD Radeon RX 570 comes with many more TMUs, resulting in better texture fill rate. Better maximum texture fill rate means that the graphics card can apply more textures and/or use more sophisticated 3D effects for each textured picture element, which improves visual appearance of games and generated images.

Maximum Single Precision performance, measured in GFLOPS or billions of Floating Point Operations Per Second, shows how good the GPU is at running programs, that make an extensive use of single-precision floating point numbers. All single-precision calculations are performed by CUDA cores or stream processors, thus the more cores / processors the graphics card has the better. Performance also depends on the processor clock speed. The AMD Radeon RX 570 is faster here. Higher single-precision performance number means the graphics card will perform better in general computing applications. Since stream processors or CUDA cores are also used as vertex and geometry shaders for 3D image generation, higher performance is also beneficial to games.

To speed up processing, the GPUs store 3D scene data, textures and intermediate data, used for image generation, in on-board memory. The video memory usually has much higher bandwidth than system RAM, and more bandwidth allows the GPU to run at higher screen resolutions, use larger and more detailed textures, and apply more complex 3D effects and filters. Memory type, speed, and width of memory interface all affect the bandwidth value. Specifically, higher memory bandwidth of the Radeon RX 570 graphics unit is a result of wider memory bus.