Radeon HD 7950 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6600, which features a clock speed of 1626 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It features 1792 SPUs, 112 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6600		132 Watts
Radeon HD 7950		200 Watts
	Difference: 68 Watts (52%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 7950 should in theory be just a bit superior to the Radeon RX 6600 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950		240000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6600		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 10624 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 will be much (about 103%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 7950. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7950		89600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 92512 (103%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 will be a lot (more or less 307%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 7950, and also able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7950		25600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 78464 (307%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.