GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6600, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1626 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6600		132 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
	Difference: 18 Watts (14%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1070 should theoretically be a little bit better than the Radeon RX 6600 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6600		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 is a little bit (approximately 1%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1070. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1392 (1%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6600 is the winner, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7680 (8%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs 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 is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.