Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which has core clock speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 340 Watts (213%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 295X2 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon RX 5600 XT overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 295936 (86%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 will be quite a bit (about 81%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5600 XT. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 160336 (81%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be much (more or less 48%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 5600 XT, and should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 42304 (48%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel 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.