GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon RX 6600 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6600 XT, which has a clock speed of 1968 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
Radeon RX 6600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (113%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6600 XT should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 176128 (205%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 XT will be much (more or less 277%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		251904 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 185088 (277%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6600 XT is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		125952 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 92544 (277%)

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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.