Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 470, which features GPU clock speed of 926 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1650 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 470		11756 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 7646 (186%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		289 Sol/s
Radeon R7 360		98 Sol/s
	Difference: 191 (195%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		26 Mh/s
Radeon R7 360		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 16 (160%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 470 should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 107200 (103%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is a lot (approximately 135%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 68128 (135%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 should be a lot (approximately 76%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 360, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12832 (76%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.