GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 6800 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6800 XT, which has core clock speeds of 1825 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 4608 SPUs as well as 288 TAUs and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon RX 6800 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 180 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6800 XT should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 960 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 XT should be quite a bit (approximately 629%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		525600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 453472 (629%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 XT is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 197536 (548%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster 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 figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.