Radeon RX 5700 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which has GPU core speed of 2321 MHz, and (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 2000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 2560 SPUs, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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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

The Radeon RX 5700 should in theory be 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 is a lot (approximately 76%) better at texture filtering 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 resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6700 XT is a better choice, 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 max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.