Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which features GPU clock speed of 2321 MHz, and (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 2000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 2560 SPUs, 160 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6700 XT, in theory, should perform a bit faster than the Geforce GTX 690 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
	Difference: 8704 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT is much (about 59%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 690. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 137120 (59%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be quite a bit (about 154%) more effective at FSAA than the Geforce GTX 690, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 89984 (154%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its 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 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 quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.