GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 6800 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6800 XT, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1825 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 4608 SPUs, 288 Texture Address Units, and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
Radeon RX 6800 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6800 XT should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		524288 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 262144 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 XT should be much (about 191%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 1070. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		525600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 344880 (191%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 1070, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 137216 (142%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.