Radeon HD 7790 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with GPU core speed of 1050 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 768 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation 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 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

The Radeon R7 360, in theory, should be a little bit faster than the Radeon HD 7790 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7790 should be a bit (more or less 11%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be a bit (approximately 5%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 7790, and also able to handle higher resolutions better. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.