Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1925 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2250 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It features 5120 SPUs, 320 TAUs, and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB		50 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 285 Watts (570%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 525824 (822%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT will be quite a bit (approximately 3849%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 600400 (3849%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB		5200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 241200 (4638%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past 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 RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be 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 this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.