GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which comes with core clock speeds of 1925 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM. 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)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 260 Watts (347%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6950 XT is 414% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 475136 (414%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be quite a bit (about 895%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 554080 (895%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 205120 (497%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.