Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition vs Radeon RX 6800

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6800, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1700 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 2000 MHz on this specific card. It features 3840 SPUs as well as 240 Texture Address Units and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
Radeon RX 6800		250 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6800 should be 14% faster than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		524288 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 is quite a bit (more or less 52%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		408000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 139200 (52%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 is superior to the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		163200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 55680 (52%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, 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 number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.