GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs Radeon RX 6900 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6900 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1825 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this particular model. It features 5120 SPUs as well as 320 Texture Address Units and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
Radeon RX 6900 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6900 XT should in theory perform just a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		524288 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 524288 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6900 XT should be a lot (more or less 172%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		584000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 369680 (172%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6900 XT is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 120800 (107%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

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