GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6600, which features a clock frequency of 1626 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 1792 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6600		132 Watts
GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
	Difference: 13 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6600 should theoretically be a small bit better than the GeForce GTX 970 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 5376 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 is much (more or less 67%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 72912 (67%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6600 is superior to the GeForce GTX 970, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36864 (55%)

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 across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card 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 one second.

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