GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon RX 6600 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6600 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1968 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a speed of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		160 Watts
GeForce GTX 295		289 Watts
	Difference: 129 Watts (81%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6600 XT, in theory, should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 295 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 295		223776 MB/sec
	Difference: 38368 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 XT will be much (approximately 173%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 295. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		251904 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 295		92160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 159744 (173%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 XT should be quite a bit (about 290%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 295, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		125952 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 295		32256 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 93696 (290%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.