Radeon R7 M360 vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which features a core clock frequency of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1425 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1792 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 380 2G should theoretically be quite a bit better than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		182400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 166400 (1040%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 2G will be much (more or less 302%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		108640 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 81640 (302%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 380 2G is superior to the Radeon R7 M360, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G		31040 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22040 (245%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus 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 card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.