Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1925 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 2250 MHz on this specific card. It features 5120 SPUs along with 320 TAUs and 128 Rasterization Operator 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

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the Radeon RX 5500 XT in general. (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 is quite a bit (about 308%) faster with regards to 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

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be much (approximately 348%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5500 XT, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.