Nvidia Titan Xp vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which features a core clock speed of 1925 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 2250 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It features 5120 SPUs, 320 Texture Address Units, 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

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should theoretically be a little bit faster than the Nvidia Titan Xp in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is a lot (about 62%) better at AF 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 lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is superior to the Nvidia Titan Xp, 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 max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.