Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 2321 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a speed of 2000 MHz on this particular card. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 270 Watts (117%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 295X2 should in theory be much faster than the Radeon RX 6700 XT overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
	Difference: 246784 (63%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should be a little bit (about 4%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 295X2. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13024 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is the winner, but not by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18240 (14%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.