Geforce GTX 690 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6600, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1626 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. 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 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 168 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 690 should perform much faster than the Radeon RX 6600 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6600		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 155136 (68%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 should be much (more or less 29%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 6600. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 52128 (29%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6600 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 45504 (78%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 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, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.