GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6600, which has clock speeds of 1626 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6600		132 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
	Difference: 18 Watts (14%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1070 should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 6600 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6600		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 will be a bit (approximately 1%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1070. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1392 (1%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 is just a bit (approximately 8%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1070, and will be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7680 (8%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out 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 it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of 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 handling 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 can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.