GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which comes with clock speeds of 1925 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM. 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 560		150 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 185 Watts (123%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce GTX 560 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
	Difference: 461696 (360%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is a lot (more or less 1258%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 570640 (1258%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be quite a bit (more or less 851%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 560, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 220480 (851%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.