GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which features 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 570		219 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 116 Watts (53%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should in theory be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 570 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
	Difference: 437824 (288%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be a lot (about 1303%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 572080 (1303%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 570, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 217120 (742%)

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 transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.