Radeon R7 M360 vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 380X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 970 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1425 MHz on this specific model. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 380X should perform a lot faster than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		182400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 166400 (1040%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X is quite a bit (approximately 360%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 97160 (360%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X is quite a bit (more or less 245%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R7 M360, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		31040 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22040 (245%)

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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.