Radeon R9 280X vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 2321 MHz, and (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 2000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2560 Stream Processors, 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 280X		250 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6700 XT is 37% quicker than the Radeon R9 280X in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
Radeon R9 280X		288000 MB/sec
	Difference: 105216 (37%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should be quite a bit (more or less 241%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 280X. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		108800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 262560 (241%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		27200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 121344 (446%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of 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 it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.