Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which comes with a clock speed of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also features a 192-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (60%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should be 231% quicker than the Radeon R7 360 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 240064 (231%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be quite a bit (more or less 293%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 147600 (293%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be much (more or less 424%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 360, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 71200 (424%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. 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 also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.