Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which has GPU clock speed of 1925 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 2250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 5120 SPUs, 320 Texture Address Units, and 128 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 205 Watts (158%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should in theory perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 360448 (157%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be quite a bit (more or less 308%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5500 XT. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 464904 (308%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 191456 (348%)

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 data (counted in megabytes 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 the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.