Radeon R7 M360 vs Radeon R9 M280X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M280X, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 900 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1375 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 896 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M280X should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X		88000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 72000 (450%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M280X is a lot (about 87%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X		50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23400 (87%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M280X should be much (approximately 60%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 M360, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X		14400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5400 (60%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.