GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon RX 6600 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6600 XT, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1968 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 2000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 2048 Stream Processors, 128 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
Radeon RX 6600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6600 XT, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (33%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 XT will be much (approximately 132%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		251904 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 143472 (132%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6600 XT is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		125952 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 53664 (74%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core 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 output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.