Radeon RX 460 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which has core clock speeds of 1925 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 5120 SPUs as well as 320 Texture Address Units and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 260 Watts (347%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should theoretically be a lot better than the Radeon RX 460 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 477824 (427%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be a lot (approximately 909%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 460. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 554960 (909%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is superior to the Radeon RX 460, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 228960 (1313%)

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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.