Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 280, which features core clock speeds of 933 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 280		7961 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 3851 (94%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280		183 Sol/s
Radeon R7 360		98 Sol/s
	Difference: 85 (87%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280		22 Mh/s
Radeon R7 360		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 12 (120%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 280 should in theory perform much faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 136000 (131%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280 is much (approximately 107%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 54096 (107%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 280 is much (approximately 78%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 360, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13056 (78%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.