Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6600		132 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 168 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Geforce GTX 690 should in theory be a lot superior to the Radeon RX 6600 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6600		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 155136 (68%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 will be quite a bit (approximately 29%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 6600. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 52128 (29%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6600 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 45504 (78%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.