GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which makes use of a 6 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 2200 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a speed of 2250 MHz on this model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		107 Watts
GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
	Difference: 43 Watts (40%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6500 XT will be 15% faster than the GeForce GTX 560 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
	Difference: 19328 (15%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT will be much (approximately 210%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 95440 (210%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6500 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 560, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 44480 (172%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result 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 AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.