Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 290X, which comes with clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2816 SPUs along with 176 Texture Address Units 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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 290X should perform much 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 should be a lot (more or less 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 a lot (about 205%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R7 360, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling 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 the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.