GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1925 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 2250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 5120 SPUs, 320 Texture Address Units, and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 215 Watts (179%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 477824 (427%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be much (approximately 754%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 543872 (754%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 960, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 210336 (583%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.