Radeon HD 5570 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M360, which has 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 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 5570 should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5570		28800 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (80%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 is a lot (more or less 108%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 5570. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5570		13000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14000 (108%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 will be much (more or less 73%) more effective at AA than the Radeon HD 5570, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5570		5200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3800 (73%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.