GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6600, which has a core clock speed of 1626 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 1792 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6600		132 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
	Difference: 18 Watts (14%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1070 should theoretically perform a bit faster than the Radeon RX 6600 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6600		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 should be a bit (more or less 1%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1070. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1392 (1%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6600 is the winner, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7680 (8%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.