Radeon R7 250X 2GB vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 360, which has clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250X 2GB		95 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 360 should theoretically perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 250X 2GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250X 2GB		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 32000 (44%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is much (more or less 26%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 250X 2GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250X 2GB		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10400 (26%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be a little bit (more or less 5%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R7 250X 2GB, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250X 2GB		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 800 (5%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video 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 number of colour ROPs by the the core 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 rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.