GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which features 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 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 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 63 Watts (59%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6500 XT should be 15% quicker than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 19200 (15%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT is quite a bit (more or less 168%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 88192 (168%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT will be quite a bit (about 168%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 44096 (168%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved 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 memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 can be 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 this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.