GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which has core clock speeds of 2200 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		107 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
	Difference: 93 Watts (87%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6500 XT should in theory be a bit superior to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 147456 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti should be quite a bit (approximately 52%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 6500 XT. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 73520 (52%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is superior to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 42400 (60%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.