Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which features clock speeds of 1925 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 5120 SPUs along with 320 Texture Address Units and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 185 Watts (123%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should perform much faster than the Radeon RX 5500 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 360448 (157%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be much (more or less 319%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 469040 (319%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is superior to the Radeon RX 5500, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 192960 (361%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are 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 this number, the better the graphics 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 most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.