Radeon RX 6700 XT vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon VII, which comes with core clock speeds of 1400 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (28%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon VII, in theory, should be much faster than the Radeon RX 6700 XT in general. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
	Difference: 655360 (167%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be a bit (approximately 11%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon VII. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 35360 (11%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 58944 (66%)

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 MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.