Radeon R7 250X 2GB vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 360, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1625 MHz on this specific model. 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 in theory perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 250X 2GB overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be quite a bit (about 26%) faster with regards to texture 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

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is the winner, but not by far. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number 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 video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.