GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6600, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1626 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 1792 Stream Processors, 112 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
Radeon RX 6600		132 Watts
	Difference: 12 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6600, in theory, should perform a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 will be quite a bit (approximately 68%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 73680 (68%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6600 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 31776 (44%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.