GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which uses a 6 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 2200 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 2250 MHz on this particular card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		107 Watts
GeForce GTX 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 112 Watts (105%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 570 should in theory perform a bit faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
	Difference: 4544 (3%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT will be much (about 221%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 570. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 96880 (221%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6500 XT is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 41120 (140%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.