Radeon R7 M360 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1156 MHz. The HBM2 RAM runs at a frequency of 1600 MHz on this model. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should be much faster than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 403430 (2521%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 will be a lot (approximately 859%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 231944 (859%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 64984 (722%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 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, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

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