GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 2321 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this specific model. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (59%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 6700 XT should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 970 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 169216 (76%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be much (about 240%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 262160 (240%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should be a lot (about 121%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GTX 970, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 81344 (121%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.