Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which comes with a core clock speed of 2200 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2250 MHz. It also features a 64-bit bus, and makes use of a 6 nm design. It is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon RX 6500 XT		107 Watts
	Difference: 7 Watts (7%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 6500 XT should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 43456 (42%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT is much (about 179%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 90400 (179%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT should be quite a bit (approximately 319%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R7 360, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 53600 (319%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.