Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 6800

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6800, which comes with core clock 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 360		100 Watts
Radeon RX 6800		250 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 6800 should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 is quite a bit (approximately 710%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 is superior to the Radeon R7 360, by far. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.