Radeon R7 M360 vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 460 2GB will be 600% quicker than the Radeon R7 M360 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 96000 (600%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB is a lot (more or less 126%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 34040 (126%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 460 2GB is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8440 (94%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated 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 ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one 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 higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.