Radeon RX 570 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare all 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 runs 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 570		150 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 185 Watts (123%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6950 XT will be 157% faster than the Radeon RX 570 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 360448 (157%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is quite a bit (more or less 312%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 570. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 466496 (312%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is much (about 559%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 570, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 209024 (559%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.