Radeon R7 250X vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M360, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1125 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory set to run at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is comprised of 384 Stream Processors, 24 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 250X should be 350% quicker than the Radeon R7 M360 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X		72000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 56000 (350%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 250X is quite a bit (more or less 48%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X		40000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13000 (48%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 250X is superior to the Radeon R7 M360, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X		16000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7000 (78%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.