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Radeon R5 M230 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

The Radeon R5 M230 comes with a GPU clock speed of 780 MHz, and the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM runs at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 320 Stream Processors, 20 TAUs, and 4 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M360, which comes with clock speeds of 1125 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. 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

Both cards have the exact same memory bandwidth, so theoretically they should have identical performance. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 is a lot (more or less 73%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360 27000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230 15600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 11400 (73%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 is much (about 188%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R5 M230, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360 9000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230 3120 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5880 (188%)

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

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Radeon R5 M230

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R5 M230 Radeon R7 M360
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year 2014 2015
Code Name Jet Pro Oland
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 780 MHz 1125 MHz
Memory Speed 2000 MHz 2000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) (Unknown) watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 16000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 15600 Mtexels/sec 27000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 3120 Mpixels/sec 9000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 320 384
Texture Mapping Units 20 24
Render Output Units 4 8
Bus Type DDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 64-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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Radeon R5 M230

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Radeon R7 M360

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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