Radeon HD 7850 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 360, which has a core clock speed of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It 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 7850		5200 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 1090 (27%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7850		171 Sol/s
Radeon R7 360		98 Sol/s
	Difference: 73 (74%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7850		13 Mh/s
Radeon R7 360		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (30%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon HD 7850		130 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 7850 should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 7850		153600 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 49600 (48%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7850 should be a little bit (about 9%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon HD 7850		55040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4640 (9%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 7850 will be quite a bit (about 64%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and also capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon HD 7850		27520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10720 (64%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.