Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 280, which has GPU core speed of 933 MHz, and 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1250 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1792 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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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 a lot (about 107%) faster with regards to AF 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 should be much (more or less 78%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.