GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which has core clock speeds of 1925 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 5120 SPUs as well as 320 TAUs and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (16%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti will be 6% quicker than the Radeon RX 6950 XT in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
	Difference: 33075 (6%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is a lot (about 104%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 313600 (104%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be much (more or less 63%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 95200 (63%)

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 moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's 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 quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.