Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 2321 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this particular card. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (130%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6700 XT should be 278% quicker than the Radeon R7 360 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 289216 (278%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be much (about 637%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 320960 (637%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT should be much (about 784%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R7 360, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 131744 (784%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.