GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 6750 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6750 XT, which comes with a clock frequency of 2150 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2250 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It features 2560 SPUs, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
Radeon RX 6750 XT		250 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (72%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6750 XT should in theory be much faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6750 XT		442368 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 218368 (97%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6750 XT will be quite a bit (approximately 215%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

Radeon RX 6750 XT		344000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 234800 (215%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6750 XT is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6750 XT		137600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 70400 (105%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total 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 processed in one second.

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