GeForce GTX Titan vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which has core clock speeds of 2200 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		107 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 143 Watts (134%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX Titan should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
	Difference: 140928 (96%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan is much (approximately 33%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 6500 XT. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46688 (33%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6500 XT is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30224 (75%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better 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 the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.