Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which has core clock speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 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 4G		8837 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 4727 (115%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 380 4G		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 R9 380 4G		190 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (90%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 380 4G should be 75% faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		182400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 78400 (75%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G is quite a bit (approximately 116%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		108640 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 58240 (116%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G should be much (approximately 85%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 360, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.