Radeon RX 5600 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1605 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5700 XT should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 5600 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
	Difference: 163840 (56%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT should be much (more or less 46%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 80800 (46%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT is superior to the Radeon RX 5600, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14720 (17%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends 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.