Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 390X 8G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 390X 8G, which has clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2816 SPUs along with 176 Texture Address Units and 64 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 390X 8G		13555 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 9445 (230%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 390X 8G		330 Sol/s
Radeon R7 360		98 Sol/s
	Difference: 232 (237%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 390X 8G		32 Mh/s
Radeon R7 360		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 22 (220%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon R9 390X 8G		275 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (175%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 390X 8G should theoretically be quite a bit better than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		384000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 280000 (269%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 390X 8G will be quite a bit (approximately 267%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		184800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 134400 (267%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 390X 8G is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		67200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 50400 (300%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This 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 card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.