GeForce GTX 280 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which comes with GPU core speed of 2200 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 2250 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 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 GTX 280		236 Watts
	Difference: 129 Watts (121%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 6500 XT should be a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 280 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 280		141696 MB/sec
	Difference: 5760 (4%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT will be much (approximately 192%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 280. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 280		48160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 92640 (192%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT will be much (about 265%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 280, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 280		19264 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 51136 (265%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. 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 fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.