Radeon R7 M260X vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M360, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1125 MHz. The DDR3 memory runs at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this specific card. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 M260X should be 300% quicker than the Radeon R7 M360 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 48000 (300%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 should be a lot (approximately 36%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7200 (36%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 is a lot (more or less 36%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M260X, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2400 (36%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.