Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5700, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1465 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (80%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5700 should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 354752 (341%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 is a lot (approximately 319%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 160560 (319%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 76960 (458%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, 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 AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.