Radeon Pro Duo vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which features GPU core speed of 1925 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 2250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 5120 SPUs, 320 TAUs, and 128 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
Radeon Pro Duo		350 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (4%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon Pro Duo should theoretically be a lot better than the Radeon RX 6950 XT in general. (explain)

Radeon Pro Duo		1024000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
	Difference: 434176 (74%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be a small bit (more or less 20%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon Pro Duo. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon Pro Duo		512000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 104000 (20%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is much (more or less 93%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon Pro Duo, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Pro Duo		128000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 118400 (93%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This 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 graphics card will be at 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 card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.