GeForce RTX 2070 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 2321 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a speed of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 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

The GeForce RTX 2070 should in theory perform just a bit faster than 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 is a lot (approximately 83%) more effective at texture 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

The Radeon RX 6700 XT is quite a bit (more or less 65%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 2070, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.