GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6600, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1626 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this 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)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
Radeon RX 6600		132 Watts
	Difference: 16 Watts (14%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6600 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 130880 (133%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 is quite a bit (more or less 532%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 153312 (532%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6600 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 82464 (382%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

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