Radeon RX 5700 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 2321 MHz, and (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 2000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2560 Stream Processors, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (28%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5700 should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon RX 6700 XT in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should be quite a bit (approximately 76%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 5700. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 160400 (76%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is superior to the Radeon RX 5700, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 54784 (58%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could 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 ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.