Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which comes with core clock speeds of 1925 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 5120 SPUs along with 320 TAUs and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 235 Watts (235%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6950 XT is 467% faster than the Radeon R7 360 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 485824 (467%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be a lot (approximately 1122%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 565600 (1122%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is superior to the Radeon R7 360, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 229600 (1367%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.