GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 7900 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 7900 XT, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1500 MHz, and 20480 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 2500 MHz through a 320-bit bus. It also is comprised of 5376 SPUs, 336 Texture Address Units, and 192 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon RX 7900 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 180 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 7900 XT should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XT		819200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 707200 (631%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XT will be quite a bit (about 599%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XT		504000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 431872 (599%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 7900 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 960, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XT		288000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 251936 (699%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per 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 - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.