Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon RX 6900 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6900 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1825 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this specific card. It features 5120 SPUs as well as 320 TAUs and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
Radeon RX 6900 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 220 Watts (275%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6900 XT should in theory be much superior to the Radeon RX 560 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		524288 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 409600 (357%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6900 XT is a lot (approximately 677%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		584000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 508800 (677%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6900 XT is quite a bit (approximately 1143%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 560, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 214800 (1143%)

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 in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few 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.