GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1925 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a frequency of 2250 MHz on this specific card. It features 5120 SPUs as well as 320 Texture Address Units and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 160 Watts (91%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should be much faster than the GeForce RTX 2070 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 131072 (29%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is much (about 203%) better at AF than the GeForce RTX 2070. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 412960 (203%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 156160 (173%)

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 within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.