GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which has 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 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 215 Watts (179%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 1060 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 393216 (200%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is a lot (about 411%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 495520 (411%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 174112 (241%)

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 over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.