GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which has a GPU core clock speed of 2321 MHz, and (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 2000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 2560 Stream Processors, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation 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

In theory, the Radeon RX 6700 XT should perform just a 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 is a lot (approximately 111%) faster with regards to 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 much (approximately 55%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core 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 fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.