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Radeon R9 M395X vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

The Radeon R9 M395X features a GPU core clock speed of 723 MHz, and the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 1250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 Stream Processors, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which comes with a core clock frequency of 2200 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2250 MHz. It also makes use of a 64-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 6 nm design. It is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6500 XT 107 Watts
Radeon R9 M395X 125 Watts
Difference: 18 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 M395X will be 9% quicker than the Radeon RX 6500 XT overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X 160000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6500 XT 147456 MB/sec
Difference: 12544 (9%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT is a lot (about 52%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 M395X. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT 140800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M395X 92544 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 48256 (52%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT is much (more or less 204%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M395X, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT 70400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M395X 23136 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 47264 (204%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R9 M395X Radeon RX 6500 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year 2015 January 2022
Code Name Tonga Navi 24 XT
Memory 4096 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 723 MHz 2200 MHz
Memory Speed 5000 MHz 4500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 125 watts 107 watts
Bandwidth 160000 MB/sec 147456 MB/sec
Texel Rate 92544 Mtexels/sec 140800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 23136 Mpixels/sec 70400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2048 1024
Texture Mapping Units 128 64
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 6 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 5400 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon R9 M395X

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