Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 270X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run 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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 270X should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270X will be a lot (more or less 59%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 270X is quite a bit (approximately 90%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R7 360, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (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 megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.