GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare all 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 RAM works at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this particular model. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 TAUs 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 speaking, the Radeon RX 6700 XT is 76% faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should be much (more or less 240%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 970, by a large margin. (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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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