Radeon R7 370 4G vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which has a GPU core clock speed of 2200 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 2250 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1024 Stream Processors, 64 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		107 Watts
Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
	Difference: 3 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 370 4G will be 22% quicker than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
	Difference: 31744 (22%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT will be much (more or less 126%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 370 4G. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 78400 (126%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6500 XT is superior to the Radeon R7 370 4G, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 39200 (126%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen 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 amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of 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.