Nvidia Titan Xp vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Nvidia Titan Xp		250 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (34%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should be 5% quicker than the Nvidia Titan Xp in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
	Difference: 28979 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be quite a bit (about 62%) better at texture filtering than the Nvidia Titan Xp. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 236320 (62%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 94528 (62%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.