Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which has GPU core 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 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6700 XT should be 2% faster than the Geforce GTX 690 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
	Difference: 8704 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT is much (approximately 59%) better at AF than the Geforce GTX 690. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 137120 (59%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is superior to the Geforce GTX 690, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 89984 (154%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses 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 higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.