Radeon RX 480 4GB vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which features core speeds of 1925 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 5120 SPUs along with 320 TAUs and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480 4GB		150 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 185 Watts (123%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6950 XT, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 480 4GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 360448 (157%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be a lot (approximately 282%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 480 4GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480 4GB		161280 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 454720 (282%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen 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 480 4GB		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 210560 (588%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of 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 processed per second.

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