Radeon HD 4850 1GB vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M360, which comes with GPU core speed of 1125 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 4850 1GB should theoretically be much faster than the Radeon R7 M360 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 4850 1GB		63552 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 47552 (297%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 should be a small bit (approximately 8%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4850 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 1GB		25000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2000 (8%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 4850 1GB should be a small bit (more or less 11%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 M360, and also capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon HD 4850 1GB		10000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1000 (11%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, 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 is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.