Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 290X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this specific model. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 TAUs and 64 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 290X		10609 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 6499 (158%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290X		369 Sol/s
Radeon R7 360		98 Sol/s
	Difference: 271 (277%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 290X		29 Mh/s
Radeon R7 360		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 19 (190%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon R9 290X		300 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (200%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 290X should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		320000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 216000 (208%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290X will be much (about 179%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		140800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 90400 (179%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 290X should be much (more or less 205%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 360, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 290X		51200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 34400 (205%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

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