GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 7900 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 7900 XT, which uses a 5 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1500 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a speed of 2500 MHz on this specific model. It features 5376 SPUs as well as 336 TAUs and 192 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon RX 7900 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 180 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 7900 XT should theoretically be much better than the GeForce GTX 1060 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XT		819200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 622592 (317%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XT is much (about 318%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XT		504000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 383520 (318%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XT will be much (more or less 298%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GTX 1060, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XT		288000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 215712 (298%)

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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.