GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon RX 6600 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6600 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1968 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a speed of 2000 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6600 XT should in theory be much superior to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 147456 (129%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 XT will be a lot (about 307%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		251904 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 189984 (307%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6600 XT is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		125952 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 84672 (205%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.