Radeon HD 7870 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 360, which features GPU core speed of 1050 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 768 SPUs, 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 7870		6230 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 2120 (52%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7870		172 Sol/s
Radeon R7 360		98 Sol/s
	Difference: 74 (76%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7870		16 Mh/s
Radeon R7 360		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 6 (60%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon HD 7870		175 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (75%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 7870 should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870		153600 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 49600 (48%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7870 should be much (about 59%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870		80000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29600 (59%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 7870 will be much (more or less 90%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 360, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870		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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out 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 also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.