Radeon HD 7950 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M360, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1125 MHz. The DDR3 memory is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this specific card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 7950 is 1400% faster than the Radeon R7 M360 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950		240000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 224000 (1400%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7950 is much (about 232%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950		89600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 62600 (232%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7950 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950		25600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16600 (184%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.