GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 6800

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6800, which has clock speeds of 1700 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 3840 SPUs along with 240 TAUs and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon RX 6800		250 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6800, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		524288 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 412288 (368%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 should be a lot (approximately 466%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		408000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 335872 (466%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		163200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 127136 (353%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.