GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which comes with core speeds of 2200 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM. 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 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 63 Watts (59%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6500 XT should in theory be a little bit better than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 19200 (15%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT should be a lot (approximately 168%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 88192 (168%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT is quite a bit (about 168%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 44096 (168%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.