Radeon RX 550 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which has core clock speeds of 2321 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 memory. 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 550		50 Watts
Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
	Difference: 180 Watts (360%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6700 XT should be a lot faster than the Radeon RX 550 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 278528 (243%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be quite a bit (more or less 955%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 336160 (955%)

Pixel Rate

If running with 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 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 130944 (744%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

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