Radeon RX 590 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which features core clock speeds of 2321 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (31%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6700 XT, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon RX 590 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 131072 (50%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be quite a bit (about 76%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 590. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 159824 (76%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 101536 (216%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.