Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which features a clock frequency of 2321 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is made up of 2560 SPUs, 160 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition should in theory perform a bit faster than the Radeon RX 6700 XT in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should be a lot (approximately 38%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 102560 (38%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should be quite a bit (approximately 38%) more effective at AA than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 41024 (38%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.