Geforce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which has core clock speeds of 1925 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 5120 SPUs as well as 320 Texture Address Units and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		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 bit superior to the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		495616 MB/sec
	Difference: 94208 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be quite a bit (approximately 86%) better at AF than the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		331520 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 284480 (86%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be much (more or less 89%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti, and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		130240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 116160 (89%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the 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 are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.