Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 M395X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M395X, which has a core clock speed of 723 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon R9 M395X		125 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 M395X should in theory be a lot superior to the Radeon R7 360 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X		160000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 56000 (54%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M395X is quite a bit (approximately 84%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X		92544 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 42144 (84%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M395X is quite a bit (more or less 38%) better at AA than the Radeon R7 360, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X		23136 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6336 (38%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.