GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which comes with a clock frequency of 1855 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 2500 MHz. It also makes use of a 384-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 5 nm design. It features 6144 SPUs, 384 Texture Address Units, and 192 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon RX 7900 XTX		355 Watts
	Difference: 235 Watts (196%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 1060 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		983040 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 786432 (400%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX should be quite a bit (more or less 491%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		712320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 591840 (491%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		356160 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 283872 (393%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.