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Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

The Radeon HD 5850 has core clock speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1440(288x5) SPUs along with 72 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M360, which has a core clock frequency of 1125 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also makes use of a 64-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 5850 should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5850 128000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 112000 (700%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5850 is much (more or less 93%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Radeon HD 5850 52200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360 27000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 25200 (93%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5850 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 5850 23200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360 9000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 14200 (158%)

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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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 5850 Radeon R7 M360
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year September 30, 2009 2015
Code Name Cypress PRO Oland
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 725 MHz 1125 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 2000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 151 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 128000 MB/sec 16000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 52200 Mtexels/sec 27000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 23200 Mpixels/sec 9000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1440(288x5) 384
Texture Mapping Units 72 24
Render Output Units 32 8
Bus Type GDDR5 DDR3
Bus Width 256-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2154 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 2.1 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one 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 - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on 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 ability to reach the max fill rate.

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Radeon HD 5850

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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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