Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1680 MHz, and 8096 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2560 Stream Processors, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (135%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition should theoretically be a lot superior to the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 354752 (341%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition should be a lot (more or less 433%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 218400 (433%)

Pixel Rate

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

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 90720 (540%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.