GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which uses a 6 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 2200 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a speed of 2250 MHz on this particular card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units 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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6500 XT will be -100% quicker than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general, because of its higher data rate. (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 is much (approximately 52%) better at anisotropic 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 running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is superior to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, by far. (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 max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at 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 could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 fill rate is also dependant on many 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.