Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition vs Radeon RX 6800

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6800, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1700 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a speed of 2000 MHz on this particular card. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 Texture Address Units and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
Radeon RX 6800		250 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6800 should theoretically be a small bit faster than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		524288 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 is a lot (about 52%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		408000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 139200 (52%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 is superior to the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		163200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 55680 (52%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.