Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which comes with a core clock speed of 2321 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also features a 192-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It features 2560 SPUs, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should in theory perform just a bit faster than the Geforce GTX 690 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
	Difference: 8704 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be much (more or less 59%) more effective at texture filtering than the Geforce GTX 690. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 137120 (59%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 89984 (154%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 record to the local memory in a 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 speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.