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 clocked the core speed at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1625 MHz on this particular card. It features 768 SPUs along with 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 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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 360 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) in general. (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 much (more or less 908%) faster with regards to 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

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is superior to the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM), by a large margin. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.