GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which features 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.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

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 in theory be a little bit superior to the GeForce GTX 470 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT is a lot (about 314%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 470. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6500 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 470, by far. (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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.