GeForce GTX 480 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which comes with a clock speed of 1925 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2250 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 5120 SPUs, 320 TAUs, and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 480		250 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (34%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 480 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 480		177408 MB/sec
	Difference: 412416 (232%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be a lot (about 1367%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 480. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		42000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 574000 (1367%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution 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 480		33600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 212800 (633%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.