Radeon RX 5600 vs Radeon RX 6800

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6800, which features core speeds of 1700 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 3840 SPUs along with 240 Texture Address Units and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
Radeon RX 6800		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 6800 should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon RX 5600 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		524288 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
	Difference: 229376 (78%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 is much (about 132%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		408000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 232000 (132%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 is superior to the Radeon RX 5600, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		163200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 75200 (85%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 maximum amount of 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 speed of the card. 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.