Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 2321 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition will be 17% faster than the Radeon RX 6700 XT in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be a lot (more or less 38%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 102560 (38%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should be much (about 38%) better at FSAA than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 41024 (38%)

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 across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high 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 of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.