GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which makes use of a 5 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1855 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a frequency of 2500 MHz on this card. It features 6144 SPUs as well as 384 TAUs and 192 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
Radeon RX 7900 XTX		355 Watts
	Difference: 205 Watts (137%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX should be 275% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1070 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		983040 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 720896 (275%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX will be quite a bit (approximately 294%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1070. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		712320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 531600 (294%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is superior to the GeForce GTX 1070, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		356160 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 259776 (270%)

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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output 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.