GeForce GTX 590 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 2321 MHz, and (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 2000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2560 Stream Processors, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (59%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should in theory perform a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 590 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
	Difference: 64896 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT is a lot (about 378%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 590. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 293664 (378%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 590, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 90272 (155%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 in a second.

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