Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 6650 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6650 XT, which has clock speeds of 2055 MHz on the GPU, and 2190 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon RX 6650 XT		176 Watts
	Difference: 76 Watts (76%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6650 XT should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT		287072 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 183072 (176%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6650 XT will be much (approximately 422%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT		263040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 212640 (422%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6650 XT is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT		131520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 114720 (683%)

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

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.