GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 6800 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6800 XT, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1825 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 4608 SPUs, 288 Texture Address Units, and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon RX 6800 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 180 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6800 XT should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		524288 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 327680 (167%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 XT is a lot (about 336%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		525600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 405120 (336%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 XT is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 161312 (223%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. 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 also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.