Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 6800

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6800, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1700 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 2000 MHz on this specific model. 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 360		100 Watts
Radeon RX 6800		250 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6800 will be 404% quicker than the Radeon R7 360 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		524288 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 420288 (404%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 should be much (approximately 710%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		408000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 357600 (710%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 is much (more or less 871%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		163200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 146400 (871%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.