GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 6600 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6600 XT, which has a core clock speed of 1968 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It features 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6600 XT should be 33% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1060 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 XT will be much (about 109%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		251904 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 131424 (109%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 XT is a lot (approximately 74%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1060, and also able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		125952 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.