Radeon R9 M395X vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which comes with clock speeds of 1925 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM. 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 R9 M395X		125 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 210 Watts (168%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 M395X overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M395X		160000 MB/sec
	Difference: 429824 (269%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is a lot (approximately 566%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M395X. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M395X		92544 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 523456 (566%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M395X		23136 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 223264 (965%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.