Radeon R7 360 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 280, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 933 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this particular model. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator 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 R9 280		7961 points
Radeon R7 360		4110 points
	Difference: 3851 (94%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280		183 Sol/s
Radeon R7 360		98 Sol/s
	Difference: 85 (87%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280		22 Mh/s
Radeon R7 360		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 12 (120%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
Radeon R9 280		250 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 280 should be 131% faster than the Radeon R7 360 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 136000 (131%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280 should be a lot (about 107%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 360. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 54096 (107%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 280 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13056 (78%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill 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 reach the maximum fill rate.