GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 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 features a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is made up of 5120 SPUs, 320 TAUs, and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 215 Watts (179%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should be 200% faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 393216 (200%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is a lot (approximately 468%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 507568 (468%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 174112 (241%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.