Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition vs Radeon RX 6900 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6900 XT, which comes with core clock speeds of 1825 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 5120 SPUs along with 320 TAUs and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
Radeon RX 6900 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (28%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6900 XT should perform a small bit faster than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		524288 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6900 XT is a lot (more or less 117%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		584000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 315200 (117%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6900 XT is quite a bit (about 117%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 126080 (117%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster 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 can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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 rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.