GeForce GTX 1630 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which has 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 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1630		75 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 260 Watts (347%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should in theory be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1630 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		98304 MB/sec
	Difference: 491520 (500%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is much (about 1006%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1630. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		55680 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 560320 (1006%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be a lot (approximately 785%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 1630, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		27840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 218560 (785%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.