GeForce GTX 590 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which comes with a core clock frequency of 2321 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is made up of 2560 SPUs, 160 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (59%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 6700 XT should in theory be a small bit better than the GeForce GTX 590 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
	Difference: 64896 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should be a lot (more or less 378%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 590. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 293664 (378%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 90272 (155%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over 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 RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling 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 the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.