Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 360, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1625 MHz on this particular model. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator 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 R7 360		4110 points
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		340 points
	Difference: 3770 (1109%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		31 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 69 Watts (223%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 360 should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 91200 (713%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be a lot (approximately 908%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		5000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 45400 (908%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is much (approximately 572%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM), and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)		2500 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14300 (572%)

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

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at 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 card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.