Radeon RX 5600 XT vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 2321 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this model. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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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

In theory, the Radeon RX 6700 XT should be 14% quicker than the Radeon RX 5600 XT overall, due to its higher data rate. (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 is much (about 88%) more effective at texture filtering 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 a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is a better choice, by far. (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core 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 per second.

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