Radeon RX 5600 XT vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 2321 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a speed of 2000 MHz on this specific card. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (44%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6700 XT should theoretically be a little bit superior to the Radeon RX 5600 XT overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 49152 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be a lot (more or less 88%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 5600 XT. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 173360 (88%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60544 (69%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output 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 maximum fill rate.