GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (56%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6950 XT is 340% faster than the GeForce GTX 470 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
	Difference: 455904 (340%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be quite a bit (more or less 1712%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 582008 (1712%)

Pixel Rate

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

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 222120 (915%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock 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 also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.