GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which comes with clock speeds of 2200 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 1024 SPUs along with 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 GTX 960		120 Watts
	Difference: 13 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6500 XT should theoretically be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 35456 (32%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT should be much (more or less 95%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 68672 (95%)

Pixel Rate

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

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 34336 (95%)

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 max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.