Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M360, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1125 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is comprised of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 240 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (80%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 will be quite a bit (about 85%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12400 (85%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 will be much (more or less 54%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R7 240, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3160 (54%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its 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 card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.