GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which has core speeds of 2321 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (28%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should theoretically perform a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should be quite a bit (about 44%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1080. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 114240 (44%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be a lot (about 44%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GTX 1080, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 45696 (44%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.