Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which has GPU core speed of 1925 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 2250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 5120 Stream Processors, 320 Texture Address Units, and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 255 Watts (319%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should in theory perform much faster than the Radeon RX 560 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 475136 (414%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is much (about 719%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 540800 (719%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is superior to the Radeon RX 560, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 227600 (1211%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

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