Radeon R7 250 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 360, which has core clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 16 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 R7 360		4110 points
Radeon R7 250		1836 points
	Difference: 2274 (124%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250		65 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (54%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 360 should be much faster than the Radeon R7 250 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
	Difference: 30400 (41%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be a lot (approximately 110%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 26400 (110%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8800 (110%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour 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 fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.