GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which features a GPU core clock speed of 2200 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 2250 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also features 1024 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		107 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 183 Watts (171%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
	Difference: 475443 (322%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is quite a bit (more or less 115%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 6500 XT. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 161600 (115%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is superior to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 80800 (115%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, 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, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core 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 output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.