Radeon RX 7900 XT vs Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which uses a 5 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1855 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a frequency of 2500 MHz on this particular model. It features 6144 SPUs along with 384 Texture Address Units and 192 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 7900 XT		300 Watts
Radeon RX 7900 XTX		355 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX will be 20% quicker than the Radeon RX 7900 XT in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		983040 MB/sec
Radeon RX 7900 XT		819200 MB/sec
	Difference: 163840 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX will be a lot (more or less 41%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 7900 XT. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		712320 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 7900 XT		504000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 208320 (41%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		356160 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 7900 XT		288000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 68160 (24%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

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