Radeon R9 M295X vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which comes with a clock frequency of 2200 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2250 MHz. It also makes use of a 64-bit bus, and uses a 6 nm design. It is comprised of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		107 Watts
Radeon R9 M295X		125 Watts
	Difference: 18 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 M295X should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X		176000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
	Difference: 28544 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT should be a lot (approximately 47%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M295X. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M295X		96000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 44800 (47%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT is quite a bit (approximately 193%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R9 M295X, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M295X		24000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 46400 (193%)

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 max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.