GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which comes with clock speeds of 2200 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		107 Watts
GeForce GTX 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 108 Watts (101%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6500 XT should theoretically be a small bit superior to the GeForce GTX 470 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
	Difference: 13536 (10%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT should be a lot (about 314%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 106808 (314%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT should be quite a bit (approximately 190%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 470, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 46120 (190%)

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 MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.