Radeon R9 390X 8G vs Radeon RX 6750 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6750 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 2150 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a speed of 2250 MHz on this specific card. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6750 XT		250 Watts
Radeon R9 390X 8G		275 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6750 XT is 15% faster than the Radeon R9 390X 8G overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 6750 XT		442368 MB/sec
Radeon R9 390X 8G		384000 MB/sec
	Difference: 58368 (15%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6750 XT will be a lot (more or less 86%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 390X 8G. (explain)

Radeon RX 6750 XT		344000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 390X 8G		184800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 159200 (86%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6750 XT is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6750 XT		137600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 390X 8G		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 70400 (105%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.