Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which features GPU clock speed of 2321 MHz, and (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 2000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 2560 SPUs, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (77%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6700 XT should be much faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 163840 (71%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be quite a bit (about 146%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 220264 (146%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT is much (more or less 170%) better at AA than the Radeon RX 5500 XT, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 93600 (170%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one 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 DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling 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 that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.