Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 290X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 290X, which has a core clock frequency of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also uses a 512-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2816 SPUs, 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, the Radeon R9 290X should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 290X will be a lot (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 is quite a bit (more or less 205%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 360, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one 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. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core 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 rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.