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Radeon R9 M395X vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

The Radeon R9 M395X has a GPU clock speed of 723 MHz, and the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM is set to run at 1250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which makes use of a 6 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 2200 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a speed of 2250 MHz on this card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 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 should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT should be much (more or less 52%) more effective 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 a lot (more or less 204%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R9 M395X, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (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.

Price Comparison

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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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon R9 M395X

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Radeon RX 6500 XT

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