Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which comes with GPU core speed of 1925 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM 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

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should theoretically be much superior to 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 will be much (about 719%) better at texture 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 using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is the winner, and very much so. (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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.