Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 M295X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M295X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 750 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1375 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon R9 M295X		125 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 M295X should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X		176000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 72000 (69%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M295X will be quite a bit (approximately 90%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X		96000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 45600 (90%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M295X will be a lot (more or less 43%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X		24000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7200 (43%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.