GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1925 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a speed of 2250 MHz on this particular card. It features 5120 SPUs along with 320 TAUs and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should be 29% quicker than the GeForce RTX 2070 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be a lot (more or less 203%) better at texture filtering 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 using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is a better choice, by a large margin. (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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.