Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 6800 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6800 XT, which has GPU core speed of 1825 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 4608 Stream Processors, 288 Texture Address Units, and 128 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon RX 6800 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (200%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6800 XT, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 XT should be much (approximately 943%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		525600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 475200 (943%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 XT is superior to the Radeon R7 360, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 216800 (1290%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.