Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 7900 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 7900 XT, which uses a 5 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1500 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 2500 MHz on this card. It features 5376 SPUs as well as 336 TAUs and 192 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon RX 7900 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (200%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 7900 XT should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XT		819200 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 715200 (688%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XT is a lot (approximately 900%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XT		504000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 453600 (900%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 7900 XT is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XT		288000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 271200 (1614%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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