Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1925 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 2250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 5120 Stream Processors, 320 Texture Address Units, and 128 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 255 Watts (319%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6950 XT, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 560 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 475136 (414%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is much (about 719%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 540800 (719%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is superior to the Radeon RX 560, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 227600 (1211%)

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 max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out 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 video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.