GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6600, which features GPU clock speed of 1626 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1792 Stream Processors, 112 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon RX 6600		132 Watts
	Difference: 12 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6600 should perform a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 should be a lot (approximately 51%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 61632 (51%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 is much (more or less 44%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 1060, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 31776 (44%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.