GeForce GTX 280 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which has a GPU core clock speed of 2200 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 2250 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1024 Stream Processors, 64 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		107 Watts
GeForce GTX 280		236 Watts
	Difference: 129 Watts (121%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6500 XT should perform just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 280 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 280		141696 MB/sec
	Difference: 5760 (4%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT is a lot (approximately 192%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 280. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 280		48160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 92640 (192%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT will be a lot (more or less 265%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 280, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 280		19264 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 51136 (265%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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