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Radeon HD 6790 vs Radeon R7 M360
Intro
The Radeon HD 6790 features a core clock frequency of 840 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1050 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 800 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.Compare that to the Radeon R7 M360, which has a clock speed of 1125 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also makes use of a 64-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Memory Bandwidth
In theory, the Radeon HD 6790 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)
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134400 MB/sec |
| Radeon R7 M360 |
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16000 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The Radeon HD 6790 is quite a bit (about 24%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)| Radeon HD 6790 |
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33600 Mtexels/sec |
| Radeon R7 M360 |
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27000 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6790 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)| Radeon HD 6790 |
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13440 Mpixels/sec |
| Radeon R7 M360 |
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9000 Mpixels/sec |
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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
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
Specifications
| Model | Radeon HD 6790 | Radeon R7 M360 |
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| Manufacturer | AMD | AMD |
| Year | April 2011 | 2015 |
| Code Name | Barts LE | Oland |
| Memory | 1024 MB | 2048 MB |
| Core Speed | 840 MHz | 1125 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 4200 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 150 watts | (Unknown) watts |
| Bandwidth | 134400 MB/sec | 16000 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 33600 Mtexels/sec | 27000 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 13440 Mpixels/sec | 9000 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 800 | 384 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 40 | 24 |
| Render Output Units | 16 | 8 |
| Bus Type | GDDR5 | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256-bit | 64-bit |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 1700 million | (Unknown) million |
| Bus | PCIe 2.1 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 11 | DirectX 12 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.1 | OpenGL 4.3 |
Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If 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 are processed 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 graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.
Radeon HD 6790Amazon.com
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Radeon R7 M360Amazon.com
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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