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GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1060 has a clock frequency of 1506 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit bus, and makes use of a 16 nm design. It is made up of 1280 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6600, which features core speeds of 1626 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 6600 should in theory be a little bit better than the GeForce GTX 1060 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 should be a lot (about 51%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 61632 (51%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 should be quite a bit (more or less 44%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 1060, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		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.

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Specifications

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Model	GeForce GTX 1060	Radeon RX 6600
Manufacturer	nVidia	AMD
Year	July 2016	October 2021
Code Name	GP106-400	Navi 23
Memory	6144 MB	8192 MB
Core Speed	1506 MHz	1626 MHz
Memory Speed	8000 MHz	3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP)	120 watts	132 watts
Bandwidth	196608 MB/sec	229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate	120480 Mtexels/sec	182112 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	72288 Mpixels/sec	104064 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders	1280	1792
Texture Mapping Units	80	112
Render Output Units	48	64
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Bus Width	192-bit	128-bit
Fab Process	16 nm	7 nm
Transistors	4400 million	11060 million
Bus	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version	DirectX 12.0	DirectX 12
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.5	OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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