GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 2321 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this model. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 TAUs 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

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should in theory perform a little 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 (about 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

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, by far. (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 max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result 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 AA, HDR and higher screen 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 number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.