GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 2321 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 2000 MHz on this specific card. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (31%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 2070 should in theory be a small bit superior to the Radeon RX 6700 XT in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should be a lot (about 83%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 2070. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 168320 (83%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is superior to the GeForce RTX 2070, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 58304 (65%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once 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 per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount 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 output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.