GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which uses a 5 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1855 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 2500 MHz on this particular model. It features 6144 SPUs along with 384 TAUs and 192 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
Radeon RX 7900 XTX		355 Watts
	Difference: 205 Watts (137%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 1070 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		983040 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 720896 (275%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX is much (approximately 294%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1070. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		712320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 531600 (294%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX is much (more or less 270%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 1070, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		356160 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 259776 (270%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 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 can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.