GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 6800 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6800 XT, which features core speeds of 1825 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 4608 SPUs along with 288 Texture Address Units and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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

The Radeon RX 6800 XT should theoretically perform much 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 should be a lot (approximately 336%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 XT is a lot (approximately 223%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1060, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 fill 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 get to the max fill rate.