GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which comes with a clock frequency of 1925 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 2250 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It features 5120 SPUs, 320 TAUs, and 128 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 155 Watts (86%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 327680 (125%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be quite a bit (approximately 152%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 371736 (152%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 143552 (140%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.