GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6600, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1626 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6600		132 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
	Difference: 18 Watts (14%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1070, in theory, should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 6600 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6600		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 is a bit (more or less 1%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1070. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1392 (1%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 should be a small bit (approximately 8%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1070, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7680 (8%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.