Nvidia Titan Xp vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1925 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 2250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 5120 SPUs, 320 TAUs, and 128 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Nvidia Titan Xp		250 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (34%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should in theory be a little bit better than the Nvidia Titan Xp overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Nvidia Titan Xp		560845 MB/sec
	Difference: 28979 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be much (more or less 62%) better at texture filtering than the Nvidia Titan Xp. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Nvidia Titan Xp		379680 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 236320 (62%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Nvidia Titan Xp		151872 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 94528 (62%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 the graphics 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 number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.