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

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, which features a clock frequency of 1680 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is made up of 2560 SPUs, 160 TAUs, 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

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (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 anisotropic filtering 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 using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition is the winner, by a large margin. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.