GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which has GPU clock speed of 1925 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 2250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 5120 Stream Processors, 320 TAUs, and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (68%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should theoretically perform just a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 589824 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be much (approximately 187%) more effective at AF than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 401680 (187%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be quite a bit (approximately 118%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 133600 (118%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.