Nvidia Titan Xp vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which features GPU core speed of 1925 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 2250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 5120 Stream Processors, 320 TAUs, and 128 ROPs.

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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

As far as performance goes, 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 quite a bit (approximately 62%) more effective at anisotropic 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 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
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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.