GeForce GT 440 1.5GB vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which makes use of a 6 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 2200 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 2250 MHz on this card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		56 Watts
Radeon RX 6500 XT		107 Watts
	Difference: 51 Watts (91%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6500 XT should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		43200 MB/sec
	Difference: 104256 (241%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT will be a lot (more or less 888%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 126544 (888%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT is a lot (about 394%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 56144 (394%)

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 transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. 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 quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.