GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon RX 6800 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6800 XT, which features clock speeds of 1825 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 4608 SPUs as well as 288 Texture Address Units and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
Radeon RX 6800 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 180 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6800 XT should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		524288 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 327680 (167%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 XT is much (approximately 385%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		525600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 417168 (385%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 XT is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 161312 (223%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, 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 worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.