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Radeon HD 7790 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

The Radeon HD 7790 makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1500 MHz on this specific model. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 360, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1625 MHz on this specific card. It features 768 SPUs along with 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 HD 7790		4330 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 220 (5%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7790		85 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 360 is 8% quicker than the Radeon HD 7790 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7790		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7790 is just a bit (more or less 11%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon HD 7790		56000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5600 (11%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is superior to the Radeon HD 7790, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7790		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 800 (5%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model	Radeon HD 7790	Radeon R7 360
Manufacturer	AMD	AMD
Year	March 2013	June 2015
Code Name	Bonaire XT	Tobago
Memory	1024 MB	2048 MB
Core Speed	1000 MHz	1050 MHz
Memory Speed	6000 MHz	6500 MHz
Power (Max TDP)	85 watts	100 watts
Bandwidth	96000 MB/sec	104000 MB/sec
Texel Rate	56000 Mtexels/sec	50400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	16000 Mpixels/sec	16800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders	896	768
Texture Mapping Units	56	48
Render Output Units	16	16
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Bus Width	128-bit	128-bit
Fab Process	28 nm	28 nm
Transistors	2080 million	2080 million
Bus	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version	DirectX 11.1	DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.3	OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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