GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6600, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1626 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6600		132 Watts
GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
	Difference: 13 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6600 should be a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 970 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 5376 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 will be much (approximately 67%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 72912 (67%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 will be much (about 55%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GTX 970, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36864 (55%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends 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 maximum fill rate.