GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1925 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 2250 MHz on this model. It features 5120 SPUs as well as 320 Texture Address Units and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 165 Watts (97%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 461568 (360%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be quite a bit (approximately 1071%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 563392 (1071%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 220096 (837%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the 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 clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.