Radeon R7 370 2G vs Radeon RX 6800 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6800 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1825 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a speed of 2000 MHz on this model. It features 4608 SPUs along with 288 TAUs and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
Radeon RX 6800 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 190 Watts (173%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6800 XT should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 370 2G overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 XT is much (about 742%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		525600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 463200 (742%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 XT will be much (more or less 649%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 370 2G, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 202400 (649%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.