Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon RX 6800

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6800, which comes with core speeds of 1700 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 3840 SPUs along with 240 Texture Address Units and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Radeon RX 6800		250 Watts
	Difference: 140 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6800, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		524288 MB/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 345088 (193%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 should be quite a bit (approximately 554%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		408000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 345600 (554%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 will be a lot (about 423%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		163200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 132000 (423%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock 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 also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.