Radeon R9 M295X vs Radeon RX 6900 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6900 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1825 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 5120 SPUs as well as 320 TAUs and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M295X		125 Watts
Radeon RX 6900 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (140%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6900 XT should in theory be much superior to the Radeon R9 M295X overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		524288 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M295X		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 348288 (198%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6900 XT is quite a bit (approximately 508%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 M295X. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		584000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M295X		96000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 488000 (508%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6900 XT is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M295X		24000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 209600 (873%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.