Radeon HD 5830 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M360, which comes with a core clock speed of 1125 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 64-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 5830, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 5830		128000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 112000 (700%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5830 will be much (about 66%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Radeon HD 5830		44800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17800 (66%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 5830 should be a lot (more or less 42%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M360, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon HD 5830		12800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3800 (42%)

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 max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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 higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.