GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which features core clock speeds of 2321 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
	Difference: 114 Watts (98%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6700 XT will be 299% faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 294720 (299%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be a lot (about 1189%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 342560 (1189%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be much (more or less 588%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 126944 (588%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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 - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.