Radeon R7 M360 vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 480, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1120 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this particular card. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 480 should be 1538% quicker than the Radeon R7 M360 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 246144 (1538%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 should be much (more or less 497%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 134280 (497%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 is quite a bit (about 298%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 M360, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26840 (298%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of 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.