GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which features a clock frequency of 2321 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is made up of 2560 SPUs, 160 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (53%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6700 XT should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 131072 (50%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be a lot (approximately 105%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1070. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 190640 (105%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 1070, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 52160 (54%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock 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 also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.