Radeon HD 3850 512MB vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M360, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1125 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM running at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 3850 512MB should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 3850 512MB		52992 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 36992 (231%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 should be much (about 153%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 3850 512MB. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3850 512MB		10688 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16312 (153%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 3850 512MB is a better choice, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 3850 512MB		10688 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1688 (19%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most 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 amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.