Radeon HD 7970 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 360, which has a clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1625 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit 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 7970		8225 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 4115 (100%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7970		21 Mh/s
Radeon R7 360		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 11 (110%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon HD 7970		250 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 7970 should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 7970		264000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 160000 (154%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7970 is a lot (approximately 135%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon HD 7970		118400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 68000 (135%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7970 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 7970		29600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12800 (76%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per 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 this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.