GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 2321 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a speed of 2000 MHz on this specific card. 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)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6700 XT should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
	Difference: 57216 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be much (more or less 111%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 195360 (111%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be quite a bit (more or less 55%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 52544 (55%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.