Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 6800

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6800, which comes with GPU core speed of 1700 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 3840 Stream Processors, 240 TAUs, and 96 ROPs.

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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

In theory, the Radeon RX 6800 should be 404% faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (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 (more or less 710%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 is much (approximately 871%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R7 360, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.