Radeon R7 M360 vs Radeon R9 280X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 280X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 850 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1500 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 280X should in theory be much superior to the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		288000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 272000 (1700%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280X will be a lot (about 303%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		108800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 81800 (303%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 280X is much (more or less 202%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 M360, and able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		27200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18200 (202%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.