GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6600, which features core clock speeds of 1626 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 1792 SPUs along with 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 295		289 Watts
	Difference: 157 Watts (119%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6600 should be a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 295 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 295		223776 MB/sec
	Difference: 5600 (3%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 is a lot (approximately 98%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 295. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 295		92160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 89952 (98%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 is a lot (about 223%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 295, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 295		32256 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 71808 (223%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

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