GeForce GTX 285 1GB vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which has core 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.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		107 Watts
GeForce GTX 285 1GB		204 Watts
	Difference: 97 Watts (91%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 285 1GB should in theory be just a bit better than the Radeon RX 6500 XT overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 285 1GB		158976 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
	Difference: 11520 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT is quite a bit (more or less 172%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 285 1GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 285 1GB		51840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 88960 (172%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT will be a lot (approximately 240%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 285 1GB, and able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 285 1GB		20736 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 49664 (240%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip 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 ROPs 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 rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.