Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 270, which features a core clock speed of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1400 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 1280 SPUs, 80 TAUs, 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 270		5943 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 1833 (45%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 270		15 Mh/s
Radeon R7 360		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 5 (50%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon R9 270		150 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 270 is 72% quicker than the Radeon R7 360 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 75200 (72%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270 should be quite a bit (approximately 43%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21600 (43%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 270 is superior to the Radeon R7 360, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12000 (71%)

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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.