Radeon RX 5600 XT vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which has a core clock speed of 2321 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is made up of 2560 SPUs, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (44%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 6700 XT should theoretically be a small bit superior to the Radeon RX 5600 XT in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 49152 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be a lot (about 88%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5600 XT. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 173360 (88%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should be quite a bit (about 69%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5600 XT, and able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60544 (69%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.