Radeon R7 370 4G vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

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

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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, the Radeon R7 370 4G should perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in general. (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 should be much (about 126%) better at texture 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 running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6500 XT is superior to the Radeon R7 370 4G, by a large margin. (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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel 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 ability to reach the max fill rate.