Radeon RX 5700 XT vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which comes with a core clock speed of 2321 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 2560 SPUs, 160 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5700 XT should perform a bit faster than the Radeon RX 6700 XT in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should be a lot (about 45%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5700 XT. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 114560 (45%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution 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 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 45824 (45%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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 lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.