Radeon RX 5600 vs Radeon RX 6900 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6900 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1825 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this specific model. It features 5120 SPUs as well as 320 TAUs and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
Radeon RX 6900 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6900 XT should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon RX 5600 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		524288 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
	Difference: 229376 (78%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6900 XT should be much (about 232%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		584000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 408000 (232%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6900 XT is quite a bit (more or less 165%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5600, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 145600 (165%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, 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. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.