Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which comes with core speeds of 2321 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (53%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6700 XT will be 71% faster than the Radeon RX 5500 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 163840 (71%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT is much (more or less 153%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 224400 (153%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT is a lot (more or less 178%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5500, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 95104 (178%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.