GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon RX 6800

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6800, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1700 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 3840 SPUs, 240 TAUs, and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
Radeon RX 6800		250 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (39%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6800, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		524288 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 262144 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 will be much (about 67%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		408000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 163736 (67%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		163200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60352 (59%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs 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 is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.