GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1925 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 2250 MHz on this card. It features 5120 SPUs along with 320 TAUs and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 116 Watts (53%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 570 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
	Difference: 437824 (288%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be a lot (approximately 1303%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 572080 (1303%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 217120 (742%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's 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 rate also depends 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.