Radeon HD 3850 X2 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M360, which features core clock speeds of 1125 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 3850 X2 should in theory be much better than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 3850 X2		105984 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 89984 (562%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 should be a lot (approximately 26%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 3850 X2. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3850 X2		21376 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5624 (26%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 3850 X2 is superior to the Radeon R7 M360, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 3850 X2		21376 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12376 (138%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.