Radeon HD 7950 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 1500 MHz on this card. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
Radeon HD 7950		200 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 XT, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon HD 7950 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7950		240000 MB/sec
	Difference: 104064 (43%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is a lot (more or less 121%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 7950. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7950		89600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 108400 (121%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is superior to the Radeon HD 7950, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7950		25600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 62400 (244%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.