Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which has GPU core speed of 970 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1425 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1792 Stream Processors, 112 Texture Address Units, and 32 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 R9 380 2G		8850 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 4740 (115%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 380 2G		19 Mh/s
Radeon R7 360		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 9 (90%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon R9 380 2G		190 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (90%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 380 2G, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		182400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 78400 (75%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 2G will be much (more or less 116%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		108640 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 58240 (116%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 380 2G is superior to the Radeon R7 360, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		31040 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14240 (85%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.