GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6600, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1626 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1792 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon RX 6600		132 Watts
	Difference: 12 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 6600 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 117376 (105%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 is much (more or less 152%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 109984 (152%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6600 is superior to the GeForce GTX 960, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 68000 (189%)

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 transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling 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 graphics card could 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 ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.