GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon RX 6600 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6600 XT, which has core clock speeds of 1968 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. 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)

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 be a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 295 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 XT is a lot (approximately 173%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 295. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6600 XT is a better choice, by a large margin. (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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount 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 handling 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 write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.