Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 460, which features clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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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 460		5595 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 1485 (36%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 460, in theory, should perform a bit faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 should be quite a bit (about 21%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10640 (21%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 should be just a bit (about 4%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon R7 360, and also able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 640 (4%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.