GeForce GTX 560 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which has a core clock speed of 1925 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2250 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses 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)

GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 185 Watts (123%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 560 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
	Difference: 461696 (360%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be a lot (about 1258%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 570640 (1258%)

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 560, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 220480 (851%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.