Radeon HD 6790 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 360, which features a clock speed of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 768 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation 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 6790		2150 points
	Difference: 1960 (91%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon HD 6790		150 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 6790 should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6790		134400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 30400 (29%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be much (approximately 50%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6790. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6790		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16800 (50%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 should be a lot (about 25%) more effective at AA than the Radeon HD 6790, and also capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6790		13440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3360 (25%)

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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.