Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which comes with a clock frequency of 2321 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is made up of 2560 SPUs, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 270 Watts (117%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 295X2 will be 63% quicker than the Radeon RX 6700 XT overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
	Difference: 246784 (63%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be a little bit (more or less 4%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 295X2. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13024 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is the winner, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18240 (14%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.