GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1925 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 2250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 5120 SPUs, 320 Texture Address Units, and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 155 Watts (86%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6950 XT is 125% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 327680 (125%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is a lot (approximately 152%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 371736 (152%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA 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 GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 143552 (140%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.