Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1925 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a frequency of 2250 MHz on this particular model. It features 5120 SPUs along with 320 Texture Address Units and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should in theory be a lot superior to the Geforce GTX 690 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
	Difference: 205312 (53%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be much (more or less 163%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Geforce GTX 690. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 381760 (163%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution 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 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 187840 (321%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling 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 that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.