GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 6800

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6800, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1700 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a speed of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 3840 SPUs along with 240 TAUs and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon RX 6800		250 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6800 should be 368% quicker than the GeForce GTX 960 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		524288 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 412288 (368%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 will be a lot (more or less 466%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		408000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 335872 (466%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		163200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 127136 (353%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.