Radeon RX 5500 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which features GPU clock speed of 2321 MHz, and (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 2000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 2560 Stream Processors, 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		150 Watts
Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (53%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should in theory be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 5500 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should be quite a bit (more or less 153%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5500. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 224400 (153%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be a lot (more or less 178%) better at FSAA than the Radeon RX 5500, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 95104 (178%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.