GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon RX 6600 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6600 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1968 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6600 XT is 129% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 XT is quite a bit (more or less 365%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		251904 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 197744 (365%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6600 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 1050, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		125952 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 82624 (191%)

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 data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number 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 output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.