GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1925 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 2250 MHz on this particular card. It features 5120 SPUs along with 320 TAUs and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is much (more or less 411%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 495520 (411%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 1060, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.