Radeon RX 460 2GB vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which has core speeds of 1925 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 5120 SPUs as well as 320 TAUs and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 260 Watts (347%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should theoretically perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 460 2GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 477824 (427%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be quite a bit (about 909%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 460 2GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 554960 (909%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 228960 (1313%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs 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 rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.