Radeon R7 250 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications 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 R7 250		65 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 270 Watts (415%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should theoretically perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 250 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
	Difference: 516224 (701%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is much (approximately 2467%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 592000 (2467%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be a lot (approximately 2980%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 250, and also able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 238400 (2980%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.