Radeon RX 460 2GB vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which features a clock speed of 1925 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2250 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It features 5120 SPUs, 320 Texture Address Units, and 128 Raster Operation 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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6950 XT will be 427% quicker than the Radeon RX 460 2GB in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (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 should be much (about 909%) faster with regards to 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

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is a lot (approximately 1313%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 460 2GB, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one 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 again. If it uses 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at 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 can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.