GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1925 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a frequency of 2250 MHz on this particular card. It features 5120 SPUs along with 320 Texture Address Units and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (68%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should be a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 589824 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be a lot (about 187%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 401680 (187%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 133600 (118%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.