Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 825 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this model. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 360 should in theory be a lot superior to the Radeon R7 M260X in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 40000 (63%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is much (about 155%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 30600 (155%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10200 (155%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high 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 number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.