Radeon RX 5600 vs Radeon RX 6650 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6650 XT, which features clock speeds of 2055 MHz on the GPU, and 2190 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
Radeon RX 6650 XT		176 Watts
	Difference: 26 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 5600 should theoretically be just a bit superior to the Radeon RX 6650 XT overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6650 XT		287072 MB/sec
	Difference: 7840 (3%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6650 XT is a lot (about 49%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5600. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT		263040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 87040 (49%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6650 XT is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT		131520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 43520 (49%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.