GeForce 9800 GTX+ vs Radeon RX 6900 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6900 XT, which has core speeds of 1825 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 5120 SPUs as well as 320 TAUs and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9800 GTX+		145 Watts
Radeon RX 6900 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 155 Watts (107%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 6900 XT should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 9800 GTX+ overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		524288 MB/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX+		70400 MB/sec
	Difference: 453888 (645%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6900 XT should be a lot (about 1136%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 9800 GTX+. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		584000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX+		47232 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 536768 (1136%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6900 XT will be much (more or less 1878%) better at FSAA than the GeForce 9800 GTX+, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX+		11808 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 221792 (1878%)

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 MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel 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 reach the maximum fill rate.