GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 2321 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
	Difference: 110 Watts (92%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 281216 (251%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should be a lot (more or less 415%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 299232 (415%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 960, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 112480 (312%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.