Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 270X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1400 MHz on this particular model. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 80 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator 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 270X		6590 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 2480 (60%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 270X		177 Sol/s
Radeon R7 360		98 Sol/s
	Difference: 79 (81%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 270X		18 Mh/s
Radeon R7 360		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (80%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon R9 270X		180 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (80%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 270X should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270X is much (about 59%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29600 (59%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 270X is superior to the Radeon R7 360, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15200 (90%)

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 maximum 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 card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen 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 amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at 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 could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.