Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which has GPU clock speed of 2200 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 2250 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1024 Stream Processors, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		107 Watts
Geforce GTX 670		170 Watts
	Difference: 63 Watts (59%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 670 should theoretically perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		192000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
	Difference: 44544 (30%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT is much (about 37%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Geforce GTX 670. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 670		102480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 38320 (37%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT will be quite a bit (more or less 140%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Geforce GTX 670, and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 670		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 41120 (140%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. 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 is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.